SOCIETY FOR PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY STANDARDS INC.
The Government has released a consultation paper on proposed regulations to prevent money laundering and the financing of terrorism. Parliament passed the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act last year, with regulations to be developed subsequently.
The owner of a $2 million lifestyle block seized by police under the Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Act, has left the country before detectives could press charges against him. He is the sole director and shareholder of an Auckland company and he and his finance manager have been jointly charged with laundering $1.9 million in the past year. The charges laid against them were the second phase in Operation Acacia, a joint operation between the newly formed police Organised and Financial Crime Agency (OFCANZ) and the Auckland metro crime squad.
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Having spent almost a year unsuccessfully seeking to contact American businessman John Malcolm Carr, director of two porn companies, at his listed “residential address” in Remuera, Auckland; National Enforcement Unit officials from the Company Office may need to look elsewhere to serve him, should the need arise to lay further charges against him under the Financial Reporting Act 1993 [FRA] or Companies Act 1993. Photo links (JMCarr)…
Photo 1: http://www.carr.co.nz/images/jmc.jpg
Photo 2: http://www.bankler.com/AboutUs/JohnMCarr/tabid/130/Default.aspx
Photo 3: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnmalcolmcarr
With the flurry of media interest generated by the recent Stuff News story on the non-Court appearance of Mr Carr and his “attorney” on Thursday last week, where he was to have faced eight charges under the FRA in the Auckland District Court, the hunt has been on to locate his mysterious whereabouts. An anonymous tip-off received by the Society has pointed us to a new posting on a website relating to Mr John M Carr’s property and tax affairs. Taxes assessed for the 2009 tax year relate to a modest apartment he and his wife Angelika G Carr own at 4119 Medical Drive, San Antonio, Texas.
See: http://www.city-data.com/bexar-county/M/Medical-Drive-28.html
Writer of the Sunday NZ Herald Editorial suggests “…the [Boobs on Bikes] parade is best treated like the show-off child it so much resembles – by being ignored.” The writer is adamant that the massive billboard of a naked woman Steve, his bother David Bruce Crow of Inglewood and sister Leanne Marie Osborn of Fitzroy, New Plymouth, used to cynically market the Erotica Lifestyles Expo porn sleaze, was calculated to offend.
“But the billboard that expo organiser Steve Crow unveiled this week is of a different order [to the parade] altogether. By any measure, the image is objectionable in a public context and you don’t have to be a purse-lipped prude to think so.
“Puerile and dismally witless, it is also quite calculatedly offensive because it seeks not to attract those who are interested but to outrage those who are not.
“Hard-core pornography – You know it when you see it … it is beyond distasteful and truly offensive
“Crow is terribly pleased with himself because of all the publicity he’s received. But the rest of us should make it plain what we think of this sort of cynical marketing.”
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The charges recently laid by the Companies Office against Lu Zhang for her alleged offences against s. 373 of the Companies Office Act 1993 – signals a new era of reform: a war against the abuse of the Companies Office register by unscrupulous company directors. By providing false residential and/or registered office addresses they seek to avoid full accountability to enforcement agencies, evade authorities and hide financial matters. Full credit to reporter Michael Field of Fairfax Media who broke the story about multiple shell companies operating out of an Auckland Queen Street building and their alleged links to illegal arms trafficking involving North Korea.
Criminal activities linked to prostitution and human trafficking, the international porn trade, drug and weapons trafficking, have all been linked to money laundering of the proceeds of crime.
