The Society has raised serious concerns directly with ASB Showgrounds CEO Mark Frankham and his management team over their decision to allow the venue to be hired by an insolvent hardcore porn promo company – Erotica Expo Ltd – that was placed into liquidation on 27 May 2009 under the name Malibu Media Ltd. In a hostile move designed to stiffle freedom of expression, its former director Porn King Steve Crow threatens to throw any person out of the porn sleaze ASB venue who dares to record any image using a camera, video or pxt phone; and threatens to strip them of any electronic device film/memory card, should such images be recorded. The Society’s letter has yet to be answered by the management board which the Society has been informed has met to consider its concerns and will do so again on Monday next week. Management will be aware that it is a serious breach of the Companies Act 1993 for a company director to attempt to carry on trading when his company is in liquidation and/or use the name of an unregistered company for the purposes of trading. The Society’s letter to ASB Showground management is set out below.
ASB Showgrounds, Erotica Expo Ltd in Liquidation & Role of Porn King Steve Crow
The ASB Showgrounds in Auckland has allowed a failed hardcore porn company that has been declared insolvent and consequently placed into liquidation on 27 May 2009, to organise a three-day porn promotion sleaze event where all cameras, videos and ptx phones are banned.
(see: http://www.bvents.com/event/166191-erotica-lifestyles-expo ).
Any person[s] found within the venue taking video or still images will immediately be thrown out from the porn fest says big boss Porn King Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow) and all images recorded will be forcibly removed.
The Society is asking: Why has ASB Showgrounds management allowed a company in liquidation to enter into such an arrangement? Some media commentators predict it will attract no more than a few hundred people with a sexual dysfunction or those seeking titillation from porn sleaze and extravagantly priced sex toys or seeking AIDS for the impotent or promiscuous.
Liquidator, Lloyd Hayward of Accountants Meltzer Mason and Heath, in his report dated 3 June 2009 and available on the Companies website, states that Malibu Media Ltd (In Liq) (formerly Erotica Expo Ltd) owes unsecured creditors and shareholders $145,665 and $18,649 to IRD. He reports that the company Steve Crow directed failed mainly because of very poor attendances at the most recent Erotica Lifestyles Expos held in Wellington and Christchurch (see Co. No. 1275425 www.companies.govt.nz). These debts together with those of three other porn companies that were directed by Steve Crow, all of which have been placed into liquidation, amount to over 1.3 million dollars. The Liquidator has confirmed that there is nothing left for creditors.
Currently there is no registered company by the name “Erotica Expo Ltd”. Crow changed the name of the company he directed – Erotica Expo Ltd (Co. No.1275425) – to Malibu Media Ltd, on 1 May 2009, one month before it was placed in liquidation; no doubt to try and hide the financial failure being linked to the brand name “Erotica Expo Ltd” which he continues to use in breach of the Companies Act 1993.
Company Directors Porn King Steve Crow and Dermott Malley, Porn Industry, Truth Weekly Tabloid, share transfer and company liquidation
Porn King Steve Crow was appointed co-director on 8 December 2005 of a company directed by Dermott Malley, and Linzi Frances Malley – Computer Shopper (NZ) Ltd (Co. No. 514464) – that is now in liquidation. According to the Liquidator’s Report dated 28 May 2009, it owes $163,550 to Second Ranking Preferential Creditor – the IRD – and $262,528 to over 40 unsecured creditors, with other debts yet to be assessed.
Dermott Malley and his wife were directors of the company from 14 May 1992 to 1 September 2006 and Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow) served with them as co-director for 11 months before becoming sole director after they resigned. Under Crow’s leadership the company became insolvent and Crow recommended to shareholders, that it be placed into liquidation on 27 May 2009. The Company is 100% owned by CVC Group Ltd (Co. No. 1738154), of which Crow is currently one of three directors and Dermott Malley is a former director (see below).
CVC Group Ltd directors alleged offences against Companies Act 1993
The following concerns have been raised by the Society with the National Enforcement Unit concerning CVC Group Ltd (Co. No.1738154) directed by Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow – aka “Mr Porn King” or “Mr Porn NZ”), “multi-millionaire property developer and tax accountant” John Malcolm Carr CPA of 14/31 Greenlane Rd East, Auckland City and Shirish Dattaram Vagal of 306 Bucklands Beach Rd, Bucklands Beach, Auckland (Society Report dated 10/08/09).
Porn King Steve Crow, 435 Devon Ltd, Buildwise Ltd (In liq), RSA Strandon Clubrooms and the Companies Act 1993.
On 11 June 2007 the company 435 Devon Ltd (Co. No. 1951732) was incorporated. and registered with the Companies Office with David Bruce Crow as sole director. Its registered office was recorded as 418 Bedford Rd North, R.D.6 Inglewood 4386. The Companies Office records based on details filed on-line by David Crow show that his brother Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow aka “Porn King” or “Mr Porn”) was appointed a director on 25 February 2008 and then resigned on 12 November 2008. [Read more…]