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This fraud investigation involved the representation of 322 clients from 30 countries in respect of the loss of $100m.

“Mark Van Leewarden, a lawyer from Auckland, New Zealand, representing the group of investors who say they lost more than $15 million, said he was preparing to sue Chase this month.”

“The FBI has joined forces with criminal investigators around the world to look into an alleged fraud worth up to $100m (£70m) by managers of a New York-based private investment company.”

Kiwis stung in the evergreen/first equity scandal, uncovered after the world trade center was destroyed, turn to an auckland-based legal sleuth to recover their funds.

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Warden Consulting was involved in the deployment of multiple undercover agents on behalf of NZ Post.

Twenty suspects in $1.5m thefts are mostly employees or contractors

A well-established Australian courier operator engaged Warden Consulting to resolve significant unexplained losses.

“Accusations of a crime within a crime within a crime.”

For a year, van Leewarden was a member of the criminal fraternity, gathering intel on dangerous criminals and trying not to get discovered, and killed.

The indictment charges the firm's owner, Andrei Koudachev. 38, with mail and wire fraud conspiracy and conspiracy to launder money.

More than 1,400 Evergreen clients in more than a dozen countries — many from Australia and New Zealand — were cheated of $110 million from 1998 to September 2001.

“Fraud is fundamentally basic as well, it is just theft wearing a finely embroidered dress to make it look appealing and complex.”

“Always be vigilant If it seems too good to be true [investment scheme], it probably is”. Says Leewarden.

Fraud expert Mark van Leewarden, of Warden Consulting Ltd, estimates dishonest employees cost the average New Zealand firm around 4c in every dollar.

“Auckland lawyer Mark van Leewarden, who represents the 63 investors, travelled to Taipei a fortnight ago to file fraud claims as part of Cox's prosecution.”

New Zealand investors have lost at least $20 million and police have joined an international fraud investigation after more than $200 million was stolen from a New York currency trading firm after the World Trade Center attack.

An Auckland investigator, Mark van Leewarden, working on behalf of a number of new zealand clients, returned to the country this week after a three-week hunt to track the missing funds in the United States and Europe.

“A New Zealand investigator has reportedly traced around $5 million of the more than $250 million which was stolen after last month's attacks on the United States.”