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Steve Crow banned as company director for four years – TV3 News

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Wed, 19 May 2010 9:20 p.m. By Jono Hutchison

Kiwi porn businessman Steve Crow has been banned from holding the position of company director for the next four years. He has been served with a notice by the Ministry of Economic Development, but says it’s unfair. Crow is vowing to fight the ban.

“I got served at home on Friday night,” he told Nightline.

“I am banned for four years and it covers not just New Zealand – but New Zealand and Australia.”

The ban is under a section of the Companies Act [s. 385], which is designed to protect the public from directors with a history of unsuccessful ventures. It has been used previously against directors from failed finance companies Five Star Finance and Bridgecorp.

“Personally I don’t believe if I wasn’t Steve Crow and it wasn’t the adult industry, that it would have even raised a flag to anybody.”

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Checketts McKay Law, John M Carr, Steve Crow and Liquidated Porn

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A hardcore porn company Z4K74D (In Liq) – formerly called Vixen Direct Ltd and directed by NZ “Porn King” Steve Crow owed unsecured creditors $262,528 and the IRD $163,550 when put into liquidation on 27 May 2009. It has been unable to pay unsecured creditor Checketts McKay Law of Cromwell (Alan Bevin McKay of 35 The Mall, Cromwell 9342) for legal sevices rendered. The law firm was listed by the Liquidators, Chartered Accountants Meltzer Mason Heath, as one of 50 odd unsecured creditors who would receive nothing from the failed porn company. Mr Alan McKay is currently the Attorney who acts for San Antonio Texas-based company director John M. Carr whose companies are the subject of ongoing investigations by the National Enforcement Unit (N.E.U.) of the NZ Companies Office. John Malcolm Carr (see photo links below) co-directs porn companies Eden Digital Ltd and CVC Group Ltd with Steve Crow. Among his many colourful business interests Crow owns 50% of the shares in 435 Devon Limited that owns the former troubled RSA Clubrooms in New Plymouth.

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

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Prosecuting Internet Porn Purchases

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Press Release 31 May

The Society commends Wellington District Court Judge Stephen Harrop for upholding the law by charging a “prominent Wellington town planner” Robert John Schofield, 49, for importing by post via the internet, DVDs that were classified “objectionable” (Dominion Post 31/05). That decision issued on 22 March was upheld in the High Court at Wellington this week, by Justice Warwick Gendall who confirmed Judge Harrop’s decisions on both conviction and name suppression (see below).

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