{"id":458018,"date":"2026-06-03T01:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T01:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/458018\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T01:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T01:19:09","slug":"financial-markets-authority-files-61-charges-against-six-people-over-alleged-mortgage-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/458018\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Markets Authority files 61 charges against six people over alleged mortgage fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>2 Jun, 2026 11:31 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Charges laid in Manukau District Court over alleged mortgage fraud. Photo \/ 123rf<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">New Zealand\u2019s financial regulator has filed 61 charges against six individuals over an alleged mortgage fraud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The charges were filed at the Manukau District Court by the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) under the Crimes Act 1961, the Secret Commissions Act 1910 and the Financial Markets Authority Act 2011. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Suppressions<br \/>\n         orders are in place.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">FMA executive director response and enforcement Louise Unger said mortgage fraud was one of its key regulatory priorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis type of alleged mortgage fraud undermines trust and confidence in New Zealand\u2019s lending system and financial institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 2 Jun, 2026 11:31 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[59577,9092,1554,1124,1873,12938,33352,1644,3561,29943,220,16400,111,43,139,69,1523,384,23942,4739,2963],"class_list":["post-458018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-59577","tag-against","tag-alleged","tag-authority","tag-charges","tag-filed","tag-files","tag-financial","tag-fraud","tag-individuals","tag-markets","tag-mortgage","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-people","tag-regulator","tag-six","tag-zealands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458018","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=458018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}