The director of now-defunct kitset home business Get Design & Sales Ltd, Emma Gestro, was fined $80,000 last Friday for breaching the Fair Trading Act by taking payment for goods not delivered.
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Commission takes supplier to court over CodeMark representations
The Commerce Commission has filed 8 representative charges against building product supplier Global Fibre8 Ltd & its sole director & shareholder, Tangi Tuake.
Read more →Both sides appeal steel mesh penalty
Steel & Tube Holdings Ltd followed the Commerce Commission back into court yesterday as both filed appeals against a fine imposed last month relating to the company’s steel mesh.
Read more →Stephen Gubb’s wife sentenced to home detention for joint fraud
Shirley Anne Johnston (66), of Wanaka – wife of twice-jailed fraudster Stephen Gubb – was sentenced yesterday to 7 months’ home detention & 200 hours of community work on charges brought by the Serious Fraud Office.
Read more →Steel mesh supplier Brilliance fined for misleading representations
Auckland District Court Judge Robert Ronayne has fined Brilliance International Ltd (Wu Guanghui & Wu Donghui, both of Dannemora, Auckland) $540,000 for making false & misleading representations relating to its steel mesh products which are used to earthquake-strengthen buildings.
Read more →Lawyer says interest in class action grows as steel mesh sentence awaited
Class action specialist, Auckland lawyer Adina Thorn, said yesterday Steel & Tube Holdings Ltd’s 24 guilty pleas last November relating to false & misleading representations about steel mesh had boosted interest in a proposed class action.
Read more →Lau jailed 2 more years for flagrant building site & dwelling breaches
Property developer Ee Kuoh (Augustine) Lau, 43, was sentenced in the Auckland District Court yesterday to 2 years’ jail for transgressing resource management & building laws.
Read more →Stephen Gubb’s wife admits role in joint Christchurch fraud
Shirley Anne Johnston, 66, a Christchurch real estate agent & wife of jailed fraudster Stephen Rolf Gubb, has pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining commissions from the Selwyn District Council in Canterbury.
Read more →“Cynical & deliberate” repossession practices earn Allan Hawkins’ companies fines & refund orders, commission seeks banning orders
2 finance companies headed by former Equiticorp boss Allan Hawkins – Budget Loans Ltd & Evolution Finance Ltd – were fined $720,000 in the Auckland District Court yesterday on 125 charges under the Fair Trading Act.
Read more →Gubb jailed for fraud again
Former Auckland property consultant Stephen Rolf Gubb, 62, was sentenced to jail for fraud for a second time yesterday, this time for defrauding the Selwyn District Council in Canterbury over commission payments at its Izone business hub.
Read more →First companies sentenced arising from steel mesh investigation
2 related companies, Timber King Ltd & NZ Steel Distributor Ltd, have been fined $400,950 for making false & misleading representations relating to their steel mesh products.
Read more →Judge told to reconsider 19 dismissed charges against Hawkins loan companies
The Commerce Commission has won its appeal against a district court decision to dismiss 19 charges against 2 finance companies controlled by former Equiticorp chief Allan Hawkins.
Read more →SFO alleges fraud in Celestion development loan deal
The developer of the Waldorf Celestion apartments hotel at the foot of Anzac Avenue in Auckland, Tasman Cook Ltd owner Leonard Ross, and 3 associates were charged in the Auckland District Court yesterday on 4 Crimes Act counts of obtaining by deception and 2 of using forged documents.
Read more →SFO charges former Henderson solicitor Edward Johnston
Former Henderson solicitor Edward Errol Johnston (59) appeared in the Auckland District Court yesterday on 3 charges of dishonestly taking or using document.
Read more →Propbd on Q Th25Jun15 – Barfoot auction results, Swney jailed, quake-prone buildings law, city rail link start, Arvida buys
Wide array of units sell at Barfoots – Swney jailed for 5 years 7 months
Read more →2 developers fined for resource management breaches
2 property developers have been fined in the Auckland District Court for residential developments carried out in breach of the Resource Management Act.
Read more →Commission files criminal charges against 2 Allan Hawkins finance companies
The Commerce Commission has filed criminal proceedings in the Auckland District Court against 2 finance companies controlled by former Equiticorp boss Allan Hawkins.
Read more →Insurance broker Grant Herbert jailed
Herbert Insurance Group Ltd owner & director Grant Herbert, 62, was sentenced in the Auckland District Court yesterday to 4 years 6 months in jail on 24 charges relating to diverting $2.5 million of client money & corruption.
Read more →Herbert Insurance owner guilty on 24 charges
Herbert Insurance Group Ltd (HIG) sole director & shareholder Grant Herbert, 62, was found guilty of 17 Crimes Act charges & 7 Secret Commissions Act charges yesterday following a jury trial in the Auckland District Court.
Read more →Minister puts courts on new schedule
Courts Minister Chester Borrows said yesterday he’d told the Ministry of Justice to move to set district court schedules 12 months in advance nationwide, from the current 3-6 months.
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