accused of faking terminal cancer and stealing more than $180,000 from the Christchurch Football Club<\/a> and from ANZ through a fraudulent medical retirement package.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0New Zealand Herald\u00a0reported Flint has\u00a0been arrested by Welsh police\u00a0after a\u00a0search warrant was executed at the\u00a0house where she\u00a0and her family had been living in\u00a0the town of Barry.<\/p>\n
She was taken into custody soon after.<\/p>\n
A source told the\u00a0Herald\u00a0police have been investigating Flint in relation to allegations she obtained money from people fraudulently.<\/p>\n
Flint has reportedly been using a different name, Annie Curry, and working for a company offering debt advisory and other financial services.<\/p>\n
In 2023,\u00a0Flint was charged with stealing more than $100,000 from the Christchurch Football Club where she worked\u00a0been\u00a0as a business development manager.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Flint had been in charge of the club finances and trust accounts and it is alleged\u00a0most of the funds she is accused of stealing\u00a0were meant\u00a0for the club\u2019s junior rugby teams.<\/p>\n
She also faces charges of forging medical documents, including letters purportedly from cancer specialists and surgeons.<\/p>\n
Police allege she used those letters to mislead ANZ, where she had worked for many years, into paying more than $84,000 in medical retirement funds.<\/p>\n
For years she told friends and family she had terminal cancer, but police say\u00a0there is no evidence she was ever diagnosed with the disease.<\/p>\n
By the time Flint was charged, she and her husband, Andrew, had left New Zealand and were living in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n
Using the name Annie Curry, Flint is listed as director of a company called Anderson Frank, the\u00a0Herald\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n
The company website\u00a0says it provides debt advisory and brokerage, as well as commercial advisory and consultancy services.<\/p>\n
Within hours of the\u00a0Herald\u00a0emailing Annie Curry to ask about her connection to the Flint case, the Anderson Frank website was taken offline.<\/p>\n
Before it was removed, the site claimed three decades of expertise in credit, finance, and investment.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur team comprises seasoned professionals well-versed in leadership roles, senior advisory positions, and consultancy,\u201d the website stated.<\/p>\n
Company records indicate it has been operating since 2025.<\/p>\n
The website also said staff had \u201cconnections to top-tier finance providers\u201d and they \u201coffer honest insights\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alleged Christchurch fraudster Nicola Flint has been arrested in Wales nearly two years after an arrest warrant was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-299783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299783","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=299783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}