The Society has learnt from a source today that the National Police Headquarters is hosting a conference this week in Wellington that is looking at the issues of money laundering and criminal connections within New Zealand, as well as overseas criminal links. A Police media spokesperson contacted has confirmed that the conference is not open to the public and that one of the areas that may be looked at in depth is the relationship between money laundering and crime, and shell companies. [Read more…]
Steve Crow now claims offensive Erotica Expo billboard was stolen
PORN KING SOUNDS OFF OVER FLIERS: Jonathan How and Lee Matthews The Manawatu Standard 27 April 2010
Commercial rivalries boiled over outside the Erotica Expo at the weekend, as porn king Steve Crow and a Palmerston North sex shop owner clashed over the handing out of fliers. The R18 Shop owner Gordon Arcus was giving out fliers about his shop outside the Convention Centre-held expo at 1pm yesterday, when Mr Crow and two staff members approached him. [Read more…]
NZ shell companies in bribery inquiry – Co. director investigated by NEU
The registrar of the New Zealand Companies Office’s National Enforcement Unit (NEU) is considering a number of charges against a company director after initially finding that an “incorrect residential address” had been provided on “the director consent form” signed by the director. The director is liable for a $5,000 fine if convicted of providing a false statement. [Read more…]
Rapper Derty Sesh ‘exhausted’ from backlash over his video
The fallout over a music video depicting the stalking and killing of women is taking a toll on New Zealand rapper Derty Sesh, his record label says.
The video, for Derty Sesh’s second single, Forever, was pulled from YouTube by Move The Crowd Records this week, at the same time the censor’s office began a classification process for the video.
For more see NZPA Report:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/3542326/Derty-Sesh-exhausted-from-backlash
Nathan King’s graphic hip-hop video taken down (NZPA report).
A music video depicting the stalking and killing of a woman has been removed from YouTube by its record label, at the same time the censor’s office has begun a classification process at the request of the Department of Internal Affairs.
The video for rapper Derty Sesh’s second single, Forever, has been pulled from YouTube by Move The Crowd Records.
Interested parties, including Move the Crowd Records, Rape Prevention Education, the Society for the Promotion of Community Standards and the Department of Internal Affairs, were yesterday invited to make comments on the video.
They would be given two to three weeks to make comments before they were considered by the Censor’s Office and classified.
For more see: http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/3533304/Graphic-hip-hop-video-taken-down