{"id":411506,"date":"2026-05-04T16:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/411506\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T16:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:23:14","slug":"police-operation-at-gisborne-address-seizes-property-vehicles-and-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/411506\/","title":{"rendered":"Police operation at Gisborne address seizes property, vehicles and cash"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cCustoms\u2019 subsequent investigation determined the cash was likely derived from criminal offending in Australia and formed part of funds later reinvested into property in New Zealand,\u201d the police statement said.<\/p>\n

The cash was seized and the returning New Zealander has been charged with non\u2011declaration of cash and money laundering.<\/p>\n

Police seized the residential Mangapapa property under the Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Act following last week\u2019s search warrant, along with five motor vehicles, funds held in bank accounts and $42,000 in cash found at the address.<\/p>\n

\"FundsFunds held in bank accounts and $42,000 in cash found at the address were seized, as well as five vehicles. Photo \/ NZ Police<\/p>\n

Asset Recovery team leader Julie Vernon said Operation Set highlighted the effectiveness of co-ordinated inter\u2011agency work.<\/p>\n

\u201cPolice will continue to target and restrain assets linked to overseas criminal offending, with the aim of stopping organised crime from gaining a foothold in our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

New Zealand Customs Manager of Investigations Dominic Adams said the result demonstrated the value of strong partnerships.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is another example of joint\u2011agency work bringing alleged offenders to account,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Investigations into Operation Set continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cCustoms\u2019 subsequent investigation determined the cash was likely derived from criminal offending in Australia and formed part of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3255,95,1975,6932,5504,12506,111,43,139,69,17286,675,814,1870,12641,29936,6861,1876],"class_list":["post-411506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-address","tag-and","tag-at","tag-cash","tag-following","tag-gisborne","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-operation","tag-police","tag-property","tag-search","tag-seized","tag-seizes","tag-vehicles","tag-warrant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411506","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=411506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}