{"id":603436,"date":"2026-09-17T17:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T17:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/603436\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T17:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T17:32:10","slug":"police-officer-facing-charges-over-alleged-18-million-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/603436\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officer facing charges over alleged $18 million fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">An award-winning senior police officer is facing fraud charges over offending worth nearly $18 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Police said the man &#8211; who was suspended from duty in December 2025 &#8211; had been charged with 70 offences under the Crimes Act and Companies Act, which occurred over a 10- year period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Counties Manukau District Commander Superintendent Shanan Gray said the offending was not related to the officer&#8217;s role in police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">He said two women and another man &#8211; who were not police staff &#8211; had also been charged with serious offences under the the Crimes Act and Companies Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Gray said police would be unable to provide further comment while the matter remained before the courts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An award-winning senior police officer is facing fraud charges over offending worth nearly $18 million. Police said the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-603436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603436","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=603436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}