{"id":127726,"date":"2025-11-10T10:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T10:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/127726\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T10:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T10:52:12","slug":"more-than-four-hundred-fraudulent-commercial-driver-licences-revoked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/127726\/","title":{"rendered":"More than four hundred fraudulent commercial driver licences revoked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">The New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) has discovered and revoked 440 fraudulently obtained commercial driver licences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">False or altered documentation provided by individuals converting overseas licences to a New Zealand licence was picked up during an NZTA audit of the conversation process in July this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">In a statement, deputy director of land transport Mike Hargreaves said the licences were revoked after a thorough investigation of issues identified in the audit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;We have systems in place to identify, investigate and respond to suspected fraudulent activity and we will act swiftly when we find it by holding people to account.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">NZTA was in the process of contacting affected individuals to advise their licences had been revoked and must be surrendered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Providing false or misleading information as part of driver licence application is an offence under the Land Transport Act 1998, punishable by an infringement fine of up to $750.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Commercial licences included endorsements for operating heavy vehicles such as trucks and buses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">NZTA has been approached for further comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) has discovered and revoked 440 fraudulently obtained commercial driver licences. False or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,40,38,41,39,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-127726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-crime-and-justice","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories","15":"tag-transport"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}