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John M Carr – porn company director – next step in criminal case

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The Deputy Registrar of the Auckland District Court has set down John Malcolm Carr’s next hearing on eight charges laid against him by the Ministry of Economic Development (MED) under the Financial Reporting Act 1993, as 10 AM Tuesday 31st August 2010. The matter which has raised considerable media interest was dealt with this morning in Courtroom 5. See photos of John Malcolm Carr:

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

[Updated 13/08] John M Carr who the MED has failed to make contact with or serve papers on since July last year, despite their best efforts, failed to turn up to Court.  His lawyer, Alan Bevan McKay, a partner in Cromwell-based Checketts McKay Law, also failed to turn up.  Mr McKay contacted the Court by email during the morning to say that neither he nor his client would be appearing and asked for an adjournment until 31st August when his client – so he said – would be pleading guilty to all eight charges brought against him (source: case manager and Stuff News article. See above).

Steve Crow porn giveaway linked to porn company collapses?

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Stephen (Steve) Peter Crow remains listed on the Companies Office website as the sole director of two porn companies – Vixen Publications Ltd and Sidefx Ltd, despite the fact that he was banned from directing any company for four years by the Ministry of Economic Development (MED) – effective from 16 April 2010. Mr Crow was personally served with the banning order by the National Enforcement Unit (NEU) of the MED on the 14 May as reported on TV 3 News Nightline (19 May) and resigned on 15 May as director from all four of the companies he directed, including the two named above. However, the management and shareholders of Vixen Publications Ltd and Sidefx Ltd have failed to appoint a replacement director within 20 working days of the banning order, as is required under the Companies Act 1993. The NEU has therefore given both companies until 5 pm today (Thursday 12 August) to appoint a new director. If they fail to do so the Companies Office will take immediate steps to remove the companies from the register.

It is not surprising that Steve Crow tried to give away $250,000 of porn DVD vouchers yesterday in his Queen Street lunchtime porn parade that was approved by a permit issued to him and his brother David Bruce Crow by the Auckland City Council, as a representatives of Eden Digital Ltd. With the imminent removal of Vixen Publications Ltd and Sidefx Ltd from the Register of Companies, an action which cannot occur without all their creditors being notified, it would appear to be in Crow’s interests to dispose of these company’s porn assets by a transfer to Eden Digital Ltd. However, if the porn DVDs being given away are indeed the property of Eden Digital Ltd, then how come a banned director is organising a very public promo for Erotica Lifestyles Expo on behalf of Eden Digital Ltd and giving away $250,000 of products from that same company?

The porn stars, Eden Digital Ltd employees and hangers-on giving away the porn vouchers yesterday, did so in deliberate violation of the Auckland City Council permit restrictions and by-laws that allowed them to run the street event. As they are illegal vouchers it is pointless for any member of the public to try and redeem them at the forthcoming Erotica Lifestyles Expo run by Steve Crow, because a strong police presence is expected, to ensure the R18 restrictions are enforced at the entry point to the event and monitor the sex acts to be performed within. They will be able to observe any illegal disposal of $250,000 of hardcore porn by Mr Crow. With the extensive CCTV monitoring of the entire ASB Showgrounds, as put in place by Eden Digital Ltd, it would be very unwise for so-called red blooded kiwi males or anyone else to try to use these illegal vouchers. Police are entitled to seize CCTV footage at any time.

View video of Banning Order and Steve Crow threatening to take MED to the High Court to reverse the ban.

http://www.3news.co.nz/Steve-Crow-banned-as-company-director/tabid/728/articleID/156605/Default.aspx

See:

Porn industry going bust?

Close Up speaks to porn magnate Steve Crow about his crumbling business empire and plans for the future

http://tvnz.co.nz/close-up/porn-industry-going-bust-2835557/video

Published: 8:28PM Wednesday July 08, 2009 Source: Close Up

Naked Woman Billboard ruled unnacceptable – NZPA

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NZPA 11/00/2010

The billboard image of a naked woman on all fours with a large arrow provocatively placed below her and preceded by the words “entrance this way” was an unacceptable way to advertise the Erotica Lifestyles Expo, the Advertising Standards Authority decided.

The Erotica Expo, promoted by [the hardcore porn company] Eden Digital and its former director, porn tycoon Steve Crow, is an adult entertainment convention held annually. Steve Crow resigned from the company in May. [John Malcolm Carr has remained on as its sole director]. 

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4011581/Naked-woman-billboard-ruled-unacceptable 

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Steve Crow – banned director – promotes Eden Digital Ltd porn sleaze on Queen Street tomorrow

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John Malcolm Carr, a San Antonio Texas based businessman, is the sole director of Eden Digital Ltd, the hardcore porn company behind the porn promo street event that will be staged tomorrow (Wednesday 11 August) on Queen Street, Auckland, commencing 12.30 pm and designed to titillate and offend the public in the CBD. A significant media contingent is expected the next day (Thursday) at 9 am at Courtroom 5 of the Auckland District Court to see the same Mr John Malcolm Carr face eight serious criminal charges brought against him as company director by the Ministry of Economic Development (MED) for his alleged breaches of the Financial Reporting Act 1993. [Read more…]

Banned Company Directors prone to hubris, humbug and hooliganism

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When a company director is prohibited by the Registrar of Companies under section 385 (3) of the Companies Act 1993 from taking part in any matter relating to the directing or management of any company for four years , the Registrar must take action when such a director publicly disregards this prohibition and brazenly flouts the law. Such a director “commits an offence and is liable on conviction to the penalties set out in section 373(4) of this Act…. A person convicted of an offence for failure to comply with the Act… is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years or to a fine not exceeding $200,000.” [Read more…]