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A man charged in connection with an alleged multi-million dollar fraud linked to the collapsed insurer CBL can now be named the company’s former chief financial officer.
Last Monday, the Court of Appeal dismissed Carden Mulholland’s name removal request, but gave him until December 14 to request a provisional name removal.
Both the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court confirmed Stuff no requests for further repression have been submitted.
Mulholland was the chief financial officer and is charged along with former CBL Insurance chief executive Peter Alan Harris.
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Mulholland faces charges of theft by a person in a special relationship, obtaining by deception and false accounting.
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Peter Harris has denied the charges against him.
Both men have denied the charges and are scheduled to go to trial in Auckland High Court in September 2021.
In November, in the Court of Appeals, David Jones QC argued that his client and those related to him would suffer extreme hardship if named.
Covid-19 had increased that difficulty, Jones said.
Brian Dickey, acting on behalf of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), opposed the request.
Justice Patricia Courtney, Justice Cameron Mander and Justice Mark Woolford dismissed the request but ordered that the content of the judgment remain suppressed until the end of the trial.
CBL Corporation was put into liquidation by the Superior Court in November 2018 after moving to voluntary administration.
