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NZ s biggest-ever tax fraudster John Bracken jailed
11 May, 2021 05:27 AM
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John Bracken was sentenced to eight years. Photo / Paul Rickard
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Matawai farmer John Bracken, who became New Zealand s biggest-ever tax fraudster when he fleeced the IRD for $17.3 million through bogus GST refund claims, has been jailed for eight years, six months.
Bracken, 55, was sentenced this morning by Justice Graham Lang in the High Court at Gisborne.
The sentence met with a loud objection from one of Bracken s stalwart supporters, his McKenzie friend at trial Peter Helmbright, who yelled it would be appealed, that the court had no jurisdiction to impose it and that it defied a previously agreed initiative for better relationships between Māori and Pākehā authorities.
$17.3 million: NZ s biggest-ever tax fraudster jailed
John Bracken was sentenced to eight years. Photo / Paul Rickard
$17.3 million: NZ s biggest-ever tax fraudster jailed Tue, 11 May 2021, 1:52PM
Matawai farmer John Bracken, who became New Zealand s biggest-ever tax fraudster when he fleeced the IRD for $17.3 million through bogus GST refund claims, has been jailed for eight years, six months.
Bracken, 55, was sentenced this morning by Justice Graham Lang in the High Court at Gisborne.
The sentence met with a loud objection from one of Bracken s stalwart supporters, his McKenzie friend at trial Peter Helmbright, who yelled it would be appealed, that the court had no jurisdiction to impose it and that it defied a previously agreed initiative for better relationships between Māori and Pākehā authorities.
Partner of Mongrel Mob Kawerau president and two other men jailed
12 Feb, 2021 04:30 AM
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Irene Raki was sentenced to two years six months prison in Tauranga District Court on February 12. Photo / George Novak
The partner of the president of the Mongrel Mob Kawerau chapter has been jailed for more than two years for money-laundering offences totalling almost $250,000. Frank Milosevic s partner, Irene Raki, and his son Slobodan Milosevic s partner Raiha Tawera were both sentenced in the Tauranga District Court on February 12.
The two women were found guilty with their partners of joint money-laundering charges at their jury trials in the Hamilton District Court last year.
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