{"id":611277,"date":"2026-09-25T10:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T10:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/611277\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T10:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T10:36:10","slug":"man-accused-of-defrauding-company-of-2m-over-eight-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/611277\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of defrauding company of $2m over eight years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Auckland man has been charged with 11 counts of obtaining by deception after allegedly using his employer&#8217;s internal systems to take $2 million worth of goods over eight years.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old is due to reappear in the North Shore District Court on October 15.<\/p>\n<p>Police began investigating in 2025 after it was alleged that an employee had misused the company&#8217;s internal systems to dishonestly obtain goods. The alleged offending spanned from 2017 to 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Detective Senior Sergeant James Kim said the charges followed nearly a year of work by investigators.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The investigation involved extensive analysis of company records and evidential material,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This offender caused significant financial loss to the organisation over several years, and police have worked diligently to ensure he is held to account.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kim thanked the company for its help during the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police acknowledge the assistance provided by the affected company throughout our investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Auckland man has been charged with 11 counts of obtaining by deception after allegedly using his employer&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-611277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","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\/611277","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=611277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}