A well-known Wellington landlord says a police search at his home is related to art he says he “legitimately purchased”.<\/p>\n
Police searched the Karaka Bays house on Friday morning.<\/p>\n
Two unmarked police cars were parked outside the address, and officers in uniform were seen removing items from the house.<\/p>\n
Police confirmed they were conducting a preplanned search operation in Karaka Bays.<\/p>\n
Ryan has owned more than 100 properties, and regularly spoken to the media about the housing market and property investment.<\/p>\n
He had pleaded not guilty to charges including strangulation\/suffocation, threatening to kill or cause grievous bodily harm, and unlawfully possessing a firearm.<\/p>\n
Ryan said at the time he was appealing the order, and there had “not been a business collapse – the companies are solvent”.<\/p>\n
“This is a simple case of a former partner applying for an ex parte notice.”<\/p>\n
He told RNZ on Friday the search was not related to any receivership.<\/p>\n
“It’s related to some art that I’ve legitimately purchased and have a receipt for,” he said in a text. “I believe I purchased it off the legal owner.”<\/p>\n
“I’m as certain as I can be. I’ve got no reason not to be helpful. This came out of the blue. I’m confident I’ve done nothing wrong.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A well-known Wellington landlord says a police search at his home is related to art he says he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[138,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-541124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541124","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=541124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}