Colin Rath won't be pursued over potential director duties breach

Colin Rath won't be pursued over potential director duties breach
Colin Rath is serving a prison sentence over fraudulent GST returns.
Riley Kennedy
The liquidators of convicted fraudster Colin Rath’s business have given up on pursuing him for a potential directors' duties breach because he’s in prison.The former Manhattan property developer turned Canterbury winemaker was jailed for three years and seven months for more than $1.5m in fraudulent GST returns.After arriving in New Zealand eight years ago on an entrepreneurship residency visa, Rath was given permission by the Overseas Investment Office in 2018 to buy a 28-hectare North Canterbury vineyard called Fiddler’s...

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