A business can pretend its director lives in a toy library or MP’s office because the government’s companies watchdog lacks teeth, a lobby group says.

The Society for Promotion of Community Standards made a formal complaint to the Companies Office on Monday in the wake of a Dominion Post report on on Masterton photographer Jade Cvetkov  [link below] paying for a camera lens which never arrived, losing more than $3000 to camera accessory importer Pro1Digital Ltd.

“This story highlights the shambolic situation with Companies Office records,” said the Society’s executive director David Lane. [Read more…]