Stephen (Steve) Peter Crow resigned as sole director of HWGA Company Ltd on 15 May 2010, the same day his brother David Bruce Crow of Inglewood and sister Leanne Marie Osborn of Fitzroy, New Plymouth, were appointed directors. Steve Crow resigned on the day after he was banned for four years from being a company director anywhere in Australasia and was by the Ministry of Economic Development which served the banning order on him on14 May 2010. On 15 June David Bruce Crow, the new co-director of HWGA Co. Ltd, registered 50% of its shares in his name (They were previously all registered in the name of Dermott Malley, CEO of Truth Publications Ltd (In Liq) which is reported to owe lenders and creditors $622,000 (see ref. 1). The remaining 50% of company shares continue to be registered in the name of of Andrew James Steele of Mt Roskill, Auckland. [Read more…]
John Malcolm Carr – Liquidation of Brass Magazine Ltd – and Porn Spin
On 27 August 2008 Brass Magazine Ltd, directed by John Malcolm Carr (see photo links below), was put into liquidation by order of the Auckland High Court. It published the hardcore porn magazine BRASS. One of the company’s creditors, PMP Maxum Ltd, was the applicant to the Court that successfully forced the liquidation of the company – a process that ended on 27 August 2009 when the company was struck off the Register.
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
The purchase of all the shares of Brass Magazine by CVC Group Ltd, co-directed at the time by John Malcolm Carr (appointed director of CVC Group on 3/12/07 and currently its sole director), was registered on 28 March 2008. (Stephen Peter Crow and Shirish Daddaram Vagal, the other two directors of CVC Group were appointed on 29/11/05 – and both resigned in May 2010). [Read more…]
Another Porn CVC Group Ltd director quits – Only John Malcolm Carr left
Media insiders are suggesting that the megalomaniacal managerial mantle of “Porn King” of New Zealand may now have migrated from Steve Crow to John Malcolm Carr CPA (see photo links). Why?
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
Answer: Shirish Daddaram Vagal of Bucklands Beach Auckland has just resigned as director of porn ‘mother company’ CVC Group Ltd. The resignation was registered on the Companies Office website by Steve Crow on 19 May and made effective from 14 May 2010. Steve Crow who resigned as director on 15 May 2010 was served a banning order on Friday night 14 May, preventing him holding a company directorship for four years in Australia and/or New Zealand, issued by the Ministry of Economic Development. These two resignations leave John Malcolm Carr – in the proverbial sense – ‘holding the [porn] baby’ – as he is now the sole director of porn ‘mother company’ CVC Group Ltd and the sole director of hardcore porn company Eden Digital Ltd. (Mr Shirish Vagal and his wife Gulshan Shirish Vagal still own 180,000 shares in CVC Group Ltd).
Is Porn funding-directorship – a family business worth crowing about?
Stephen (Steve) Peter Crow appointed his brother David Bruce Crow of Inglewood and his sister Leanne Marie Osborn of Fitzroy, New Plymouth, as directors of HWGA Company Ltd – effective 15 May 2010. HWGA Co. Ltd currently owns 705,000 shares (40.38%) in CVC Group Ltd – a porn ‘mother company’ from which Steve Crow resigned as director effective 15 May 2010. Leanne Marie Osborn, who with her husband Larry Charles Osborn, owns 3,000 CVC Group Ltd shares, will now be serving the role of co-director of HWGA Co. Ltd along side her brothers Steve and David – an all the family affair in would appear – helping the shrinking porn industry. (Four porn companies owned by CVC Group Ltd and directed by Steve Crow have recently been placed in liquidation owing unsecured creditors and the IRD hundreds of thousands of dollars).
Steve Crow appoints his brother and sister to direct HWGA Co. Ltd
The major shareholder of porn ‘mother company’ CVC Group Ltd, from which Steve Crow has just resigned as director, is HWGA Co. Ltd which owns 40% of the CVC Group shares. Steve Crow who for the last ten months has been sole director of HWGA Co. Ltd and still remains its director, has today registered with the Companies Office, the appointment of CVC Group shareholder Leanne Marie Osborn. his sister and David Bruce Crow his bother, as two additional directors – effective from 15 May 2010. The Society lodged formal complaints with the Companies Office last year over the attempted appointment of David Crow as a director of HWGA Co. Ltd by Steve Crow and this led to the appointment (lodged as pending on the website) being withdrawn. [Read more…]
