Associate Judge Warwick Smith today ordered the liquidation of Pipitea Street Development Limited (PSDL), a company linked to the fraud case involving Ngatata Love, in Wellington’s High Court at the request of Inland Revenue.
Treaty of Waitangi claims negotiator Ngatata Love was sentenced to two years and six months in prison last October after being convicted of taking a secret payment of $1.5 million while chairman of the Wellington Tenths Trust. Love appealed both the sentence and conviction, which was heard last month in the Court of Appeal.
The $1.5 million was paid through Pipitea Street Development Limited (PSDL), a company owned by Love’s companion Lorraine Skiffington, soon after the lease was signed, without the tru…
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