How Prison Staff Have Become a Key Link in New Zealand's Drug Economy

When ordinary working people accept a cash bribe to slip a phone through a cell door, they may not realise they are enabling a money laundering machine that funds organised crime across the country.

What Does An STR/SAR Filing Even Do?

New Zealand's asset recovery regime is proving that financial pain is often more effective than prison time, and your suspicious activity reports are the intelligence that makes it possible.

The Arrogance of Foster & Milroy

How a Hamilton law firm's deliberate disregard for AML/CFT obligations exposed the whole legal profession's vulnerability — and why obstruction always makes things worse

Smoke and Mirrors: How New Zealand's Illicit Tobacco Trade Became a Laundromat for Organised Crime

When the price of a legal packet of cigarettes becomes the price of entry for criminal networks, what looks like a consumer bargain is actually a door being held open for serious organised crime.

How New Zealand's Biggest Drug Importer Built an Empire Behind Legitimate Commerce

When inherited notoriety meets calculated ambition, the result can be a criminal enterprise that exploits global supply chains, corrupts community trust, and leaves a young man dead

Russian Oil, Collapsing Sanctions, and What It Means for the Future of Financial Crime

How Russia turned sanctions evasion into an industrial enterprise - and how one war in the Middle East undid years of Western resolve in a single phone call

Yes, there is such a thing as a professional money launderer in NZ

New Zealand Police dismantled a money laundering network that had processed $123 million. The investigation raised important questions about how laundering services operate

The Willing Conduit

When financial desperation meets opportunity, the line between victim and offender can be dangerously thin - as the case of Hamilton architect Chamroeun Kor demonstrates

The $500,000 Romance Scam

Eighteen years. Half a million dollars. A relationship that never existed. What this case reveals about romance fraud as a money laundering typology — and why your work is the last line of defence.

Unconscionable Conduct and the Gateway to Systematic Financial Crime

When vulnerable trust meets calculated exploitation the consequences and quantums can be devastating to victims.

The First Currency of Incarceration: How Nicotine Pills Become Prison Gold

Part 1 in a series on prison economics. When legitimate money stops mattering, human desperation creates alternative economies that reveal the true psychology of survival

The Remuera Façade: How Professional Credibility Transformed a Finance Director into a Money Laundering Conduit

When desperation meets opportunity and professional privilege provides cover, the line between victim and accomplice becomes dangerously blurred