On 11 February 2010 Michael Andrew Swann was sentenced to 20 months jail for accepting $755,154 in bribes from long-term friend and business associate Robin Sew Hoy: the sentence to be served concurrently with his present jail sentence of nine and a half years for his part in defrauding the Otago District Health Board (ODHB) of $16.9 million.

Swann had pleaded guily to corruption (accepting bribes) in November 2009 and on 17 December 2009 he was convicted in a jury trial in the Dunedin High Court of a single charge laid against him under the Secret Commissions Act relating to 85 secret “kick-back” (inducement) payments he received from Sew Hoy. [Read more…]