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Company director in SFO probe

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The Serious Fraud Office is investigating an exporter of infant milk powder and manuka honey that receivers say collapsed owing more than $1 million.

Nubiotics, owned and directed by Waikato businessman Trevor Lock, entered receivership and liquidation in August last year after falling behind on payments to boutique lender Waikawau Finance.

Nubiotics marketed a range of colostrum-based cosmetics, active manuka honey and infant formula accompanied by impressive-sounding health and scientific claims.

Lock, 54, is described in company literature as having a masters degree in biotechnology and bio-engineering from Waikato University and formerly employed by Anchor as a nutraceuticals development manager. Reports prepared by receiver McDonald Vague show the company had been accepting deposits to provide products, but “had failed to complete” the agreements.

The company’s main asset was listed as $5.1 million of trade debtors, but on further investigation this number rapidly shrank.

For full Story by Matt Nippert, published 19 October 2015, go to:

http://m.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11531213

Sharp rise in perverts’ recordings – reports Ministry of Justice

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SOARING numbers of innocent people are being secretly perved at by voyeurs using clandestine cameras, according to the Ministry of Justice.

Figures released to The Dominion Post under the Official Information Act reveal the number of convictions for secret recordings in New Zealand more than quadrupled in the past four years.

In that period, convictions for intimate visual recordings increased from 35 to 2011 to 155 in 2014. Police figures also show arrests for such offending nearly doubled during that time from 38 in 2011 to 64 in 2014.

Arrests for publishing, importing, exporting or selling and possessing intimate visual recordings had also risen steeply in the past five years.

In July, New Plymouth man Gary Timothy Fenwick pleaded guilty to two charges of making intimate visual recordings. He disguised cameras in clothes-hooks and smoke detectors in a unisex toilet at the Event Cinema Complex.

In 2014, a Waikato man set up a camera in an air freshner container in his bathroom to spy on his daughter and two friends…..

The maximum sentence for making intimate visual recordings, possessing intimate recording in certain circumstances, publishing, importing, exporting or selling intimate visual recordings is three years in prison.

Full story: The Dominion Post, Mondat October 12, 2015. Page A1.

Any banned company director convicted of a breach of his or her banning order receives AUTOMATIC ban applying from date of conviction

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Automatic prohibition on conviction

In addition to the power of prohibition by the Registrar or the FMA under section 385 [of the Companies Act 1993], a person is automatically prohibited from acting as a director or manager if they have been:

Convicted on indictment of any offence in connection with the promotion, formation or management of a company or

Convicted of:

An offence under sections 377 to 380 of the Companies Act 1993

An offence against section 58 of the Securities Act. or sections 51 or 61 of the Financial Markets Authority Act 2011.

Any crime involving dishonesty as defined by section 2(1) of the Crimes Act 1961 or

The subject of a pecuniary penalty under the Securities Act 1978.

https://www.business.govt.nz/companies/about-us/enforcement/director-prohibitions#automatic-prohibition

[Note: THIS “AUTOMATIC PROHIBITION” APPLIES IF A BANNED COMPANY DIRECTOR IS CONVICTED OF BREACHING A BANNING ORDER, AND IT IS IMPOSED OVER AND ABOVE ANY PRE-EXISTING BAN THAT HAD ITS OWN TERM (e.g. a four year ban). IT WOULD APPEAR THAT THE “AUTOMATIC PROHIBITION” CAN ONLY BE REMOVED BY A COURT ORDER DISCHARGING THE PROHIBITED PERSON FROM HIS OR HER STATE OF DISQUALIFICATION. NO BANNING ORDER IMPOSED BY THE REGISTRAR UNDER S. 385 (3) CAN EXCEED TEN YEARS]. [Read more…]

Penalties for breaches of S. 385 Banning order by banned NZ Company Director

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In view of the growing numbers of New Zealand company directors, MPs and business leaders who have been convicted in the Courts for fraud, financial mismanagement, reckless trading and bribery; it is important that the penalties imposed by Judges on those convicted of such offences, be regularly reviewed, particularly in view of the financial suffering and social upheaval caused to shareholders, creditors and investors etc. by those responsible for such crimes. [Read more…]

Censor Criticised Over Approach to Explicit Book

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Family First NZ has made an additional submission regarding the
re-classification of Into the River by Ted Dawe, and says that parents should
be concerned by the arguments being put forward by the Chief Censor to justify
making objectionable books with highly offensive language and explicit sexual
content freely available without any age restriction.

Copy of submission here https://www.familyfirst.org.nz/2015/09/supplementary-submission-to-the-board-of-review-into-the-river/