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15/05/2024Creditors of NZ financial service provider Vivier asked to dip into their pockets to help liquidator pursue money in Britain
14/05/2024Vivier’s liquidator, which says it ‘is not a legitimate private banking firm’, seeks money from creditors to pursue liquidation of UK companies
17/10/2023Warning: The Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM)
09/02/2022Trustee of NZ foreign trust turns to the High Court in attempt to recover more than $2.3 million from Vivier and Company
22/09/2021A red faced World Bank dumps the ‘Doing Business’ report NZ’s MBIE cherishes and uses as a performance measure
11/08/2021Financial Markets Authority warns material published by New Zealand company Vivier and Company Ltd has the potential to mislead investors
23/07/2021FMA – Warnings and alerts: Vivier and Company Limited
12/04/2021Commerce and consumer affairs minister David Clark on Vivier
01/04/2021NZ’s Vivier & Company, allegedly run by a convicted British fraudster, is accused by a NZ foreign trust of failing to provide insurance and pay interest on $4m of deposits. So what was the point of the FMA’s action against Vivier 5 years ago?
16/10/2020Vivier companies set for removal from NZ companies register
31/08/2020Billions Of Rupees Fraud Alleged At The Name Of Profitable Investment
31/07/2020MBIE looks into alleged links between fraudster and Dunedin man
28/07/2020MBIE’s Integrity and Enforcement Team probes alleged links between convicted British tax fraudster and NZ financial services companies
31/01/2020New Zealand’s Vivier and Company comes under the spotlight of German regulator BaFin which warns Vivier is not allowed to conduct banking business in Germany
26/11/2019Gareth Vaughan details the curious situation of companies kicked off NZ’s Financial Service Providers’ Register effectively because they’re deemed to be bringing NZ’s reputation into disrepute overseas, being allowed to remain as registered NZ companies
04/11/2019FMA successfully defends FSPR appeal
20/09/2019NZ’s Blue Isle Markets Ltd named as a defendant in US SEC case alleging tens of millions of dollars in investor losses, some of which was used to fund a luxurious lifestyle for defendants
06/09/2019Ex-Mishcon dodgy solicitor in trouble again after changing his name
24/08/2019Fraudster back in business after stealing £54m and not paying back a penny
27/06/2019How To Game Google To Make Negative Results Disappear
09/10/2017New Zealand companies and NZ trust & company service provider embroiled in high level Slovakian financial scandal
22/09/2017FMA – Vivier’s case study
15/06/2017The FMA’s court victory over Innovative Securities shows what NZ regulators are up against with the FSPR, and why they need to cooperate with their overseas counterparts
08/06/2017FMA – Kicks Vivier out of FSPR
31/03/2017Gareth Vaughan argues the Companies Office needs to pull finger and help the FMA out if NZ’s reputation is to be protected from association with unsavoury financial service providers
29/03/2017CEO of company removed from NZ’s Financial Service Providers Register by the FMA but that continues to operate overseas as a NZ company ‘offering a complete banking package’, releases book on digital banking
03/11/2016Gareth Vaughan argues the Government should stop tinkering with the Financial Service Providers Register and simply abolish it
24/08/2016Strewth mate! Why New Zealand should embark down the Australian anti-money laundering regulatory path rather than the British one
27/05/2016Nelson’s stock exchange, ‘a big Ponzi scheme,’ and other tales from John Key’s offshore financial services centre
14/05/2016Vivier & Co removal from register ruled valid
13/05/2016FMA wins appeal to deregister Vivier from FSPR
13/05/2016Court of Appeal overturns High Court judgment that allowed the Luigi Wewege associated Vivier and Company to remain on NZ’s Financial Service Providers Register
15/04/2016The running sore of NZ’s Financial Service Providers Register to vie for some of the spotlight hogged by our controversial foreign trusts
08/03/2016CEO Rob Everett seeking clarity from MBIE review into abuse of Financial Service Providers Register so FMA can ‘get on with the job’
10/02/2016FMA in Court of Appeal with financial services company headed by Luigi Wewege
18/12/2015Vivier chugs along
09/10/2015The Phoenix: Luigi Wewege
25/09/2015FMA – Court ruling to kick Vivier out of FSPR
24/08/2015Financial services company Vivier appeals FMA decision to deregister it
01/07/2015FMA kicks Luigi Wewege led Vivier and Company off the Financial Service Providers Register; Vivier directors ‘surprised’
26/02/2015NZ links to Irish sub-prime stoush highlight the potential for an undesirable form of regulatory arbitrage around our AML law
20/02/2015Colourful past of Vivier financier Wewege
20/02/2015MORTGAGE ROW COUPLE WIN COURT BID; Delay allows pair to keep home they bought 18 yrs ago for [euro]40k
19/02/2015Attempt by subprime lender to repossess family home halted
19/02/2015High Court strikes out repossession proceedings against couple by sub-prime lender over mortgage debt which grew to €1.4m
19/02/2015€1.4m mortgage row couple win court bid to hang onto their home
18/02/2015Court battle over €40,000 debt which grew to €1.4m
17/02/2015Couple appeals to court to strike out home repossession
06/02/2015Lender set up to launder cash
05/02/2015RTÉ Investigations Unit: The Loot & The Loans
16/02/2013£76m fraudster back at subprime firm here
16/02/2013Return of the playboy fraudster
22/04/2010New setback in bid to recover £118m from crime’s Mr Bigs
12/04/2008Fraudster jailed for stealing £55m from the taxman
20/09/2007UK court tells tax cheat to pay £16m
19/09/2007Conman told to pay £16m or face more jail
19/09/2007‘Impoverished’ fraudster accused of hiding £33m
19/06/2007The money’s gone, claims £100m tax-fraud playboy
18/06/2007The money’s gone, claims £100m tax-fraud playboy
10/02/2006£54m Tax Tea Leaf
10/02/2006New setback in bid to recover £118m from crime’s Mr Bigs
10/02/2006EXCLUSIVE: #54MILLION TAX TEA LEAF
12/01/2006Pay £98m or 10 more years jail, fraudster told
02/12/2005Fraudster Leaf gets 12-year jail term
02/12/2005The £54m tax dodger
02/12/2005Record swindler who took ?80m off taxman
01/12/2005£55m fraudster gets 12 years jail
01/12/2005Financier jailed for 12 and a half years for fraud
21/11/2005FINANCIER GUILTY OF £76M TAX FRAUD

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