Auckland woman serving home detention in $10m mansion for fraud Sat, 3 Jul 2021, 12:42PM
Annie Chen was sentenced to nine months home detention for defrauding $600,000 from property investors. (Photo / Supplied)
Auckland woman serving home detention in $10m mansion for fraud Sat, 3 Jul 2021, 12:42PM
A woman convicted of fraud is serving home detention in a luxury $10 million Remuera mansion owned by a Singapore-based businessman linked to Jack Ma s behemoth Alibaba e-commerce website.
The businessman, Yifei Sheng, bought the sprawling property and neighbouring tennis court in September last year for $10.25m without ever stepping foot inside.
Sheng, who intends to bowl the 440sq m four-bedroom house, has spent at least $22m buying Auckland properties in the past three years.
$70m forfeit: Wealthy businessman strikes record-breaking deal with police Wed, 16 Jun 2021, 10:58AM
Chinese-Canadian businessman Xiao Hua Gong has cut a record breaking deal with the New Zealand Police under the asset seizure laws. (Photo / Supplied)
$70m forfeit: Wealthy businessman strikes record-breaking deal with police Wed, 16 Jun 2021, 10:58AM
Wealthy Canadian businessman Edward Gong has agreed to pay millions of dollars to the New Zealand government in the largest ever settlement made under the Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Act since the law came into effect in 2009.
A wealthy Chinese-Canadian businessman has agreed to forfeit more than $70 million by cutting a record-breaking deal with the New Zealand police.
A global watchdog for money laundering and terrorist financing has found New Zealand's police do a good job seizing proceeds of crime and have a robust understanding of money laundering risks.
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Police seized eight luxury cars when they carried out search warrants across Auckland as part of Operation Martinez. This video was originally published in November 2020.
Cars, houses, motorbikes and boats – you name it, the police have seized it. Every year criminals are stripped of hundreds of millions of dollars in luxury items, cash, even cryptocurrency, as police ramp up the use of the Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Act. And those millions made through criminal activity are winding up in the hands of a variety of agencies, including those who help repair communities or people damaged by drugs. In 2020, $206,404,517.12 worth of assets had been seized by police by November, compared with $122,768,565 in 2019.
Please attribute to Detective Inspector Craig Hamilton, Manager: Asset Recovery Units:
Over $470,000 has been forfeited following an investigation into methamphetamine dealing in Gisborne.
Three people were convicted in Gisborne District Court between November 2019 and February 2020 for their roles in the sale and supply of methamphetamine in Gisborne, investigated by Police as part of Operation Pinyin.
This included Lucky Campbell, who was jailed for over 14 years in December 2019 after pleading guilty to seven charges of possessing methamphetamine for supply.
As part of Operation Pinyin, Police sought the forfeiture of $470,170 cash order under the Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Act (CPRA) from the High Court in Gisborne, and a forfeiture order was granted in December 2020.