{"id":18481,"date":"2025-09-12T18:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/18481\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T18:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:26:09","slug":"couple-accused-of-1m-cancer-scam-to-remain-in-custody-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/18481\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple accused of $1m cancer scam to remain in custody"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Andrew Jones pleaded not guilty when he appeared at the Christchurch District Court. Photo \/ RNZ, Nate McKinnon<\/p>\n

A W\u0101naka man accused of being part of a million-dollar fraud through false cancer claims will remain in custody for now.<\/p>\n

Andrew Jones, 28, and his wife Sepiuta Vave, 38, were charged with defrauding more than a dozen family, friends and associates through a fake cancer scam.<\/p>\n

\n Jones pleaded not
\n guilty to multiple charges of obtaining by deception when he appeared at the Christchurch District Court on Wednesday.\n <\/p>\n

Judge Stephen O\u2019Driscoll declined his bail application<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n

Submissions relating to the bail decision were suppressed, as well as details of the alleged victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 12 Sep, 2025 05:26 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7495,1117,682,2534,2562,8414,11928,16843,3561,78,20066,111,43,139,425,69,1118,5202,13120,1461,210,61,1533,20065],"class_list":{"0":"post-18481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-1m","9":"tag-accused","10":"tag-being","11":"tag-cancer","12":"tag-claims","13":"tag-couple","14":"tag-custody","15":"tag-false","16":"tag-fraud","17":"tag-in","18":"tag-milliondollar","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-newzealand","22":"tag-now","23":"tag-nz","24":"tag-of","25":"tag-part","26":"tag-remain","27":"tag-scam","28":"tag-through","29":"tag-to","30":"tag-will","31":"tag-wnaka"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18481","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=18481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}