{"id":611378,"date":"2026-09-25T12:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T12:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/611378\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T12:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T12:58:13","slug":"man-accused-of-defrauding-2m-worth-of-goods-from-one-of-nzs-largest-companies-over-nine-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/611378\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of defrauding $2m worth of goods from one of NZ\u2019s largest companies over nine years"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An Auckland man who allegedly defrauded a company out of $2 million over nine years is facing multiple charges after a year-long police investigation.<\/p>\n

Police said their inquiry was sparked last year after an employee was alleged to have misused a company\u2019s internal systems to dishonestly obtain goods.<\/p>\n

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\n North area\u2019s investigations and financial crime manager, Acting Detective Senior Sergeant James Kim, said the large-scale fraud spanned from 2017 to 2025.\n <\/p>\n

\u201cThe investigation involved extensive analysis of company records and evidential material,\u201d Kim said.<\/p>\n

\u201cA 39-year-old Auckland man has since been charged with 11 counts of obtaining by deception.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[116466,1117,74,7818,51,1873,8556,1656,37484,45001,9881,71,658,12898,19136,5158,1132,2510,111,43,139,37968,69,3272,1118,5270,1523,675,19985,216078,1530],"class_list":["post-611378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-2m","tag-accused","tag-after","tag-allegedly","tag-auckland","tag-charges","tag-companies","tag-company","tag-defrauded","tag-defrauding","tag-facing","tag-from","tag-goods","tag-investigation","tag-largest","tag-man","tag-million","tag-multiple","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nine","tag-nz","tag-nzs","tag-of","tag-one","tag-over","tag-police","tag-worth","tag-yearlong","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611378","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=611378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}