Man facing 57 charges in connection with missing hapū fundsGRANT MATTHEW/STUFF Police have laid 57 charges including multiple counts of theft and forgery against a Taranaki man. He faces a total of 57 charges, with the offending alleged to have taken place between February 2012 and April 2017. A police spokesperson confirmed the 56-year-old man faces 46 charges of theft by a person in a special relationship, six charges of forgery and five charges of obtains by deception. The two trusts named on the court documents are associated with Ngāti Te Whiti, a New Plymouth based hapū. The charges follow a long-running police investigation prompted by a May 2017 complaint laid by the Ngāti Te Whiti Whenua Topu Trust.

Source: Stuff March 09, 2018 04:18 UTC