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Richard Whitham and his wife Erika Whitham. The couple, along with their four young children and Erikas mother, Elisabet van der Merwe, left New Zealand on May 17, 2018 (file photo).
Kiwi dad Richard Whitham illegally transferred hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Singaporean bank account on a single day.
It was an act that would cause the Hamilton father-of-four to spend almost three years locked up in a foreign jail.
Whitham is accused of stealing $4.5 million from his former employer Hamilton-based finance company Worldclear before fleeing New Zealand with his wife, children and mother-in-law in May 2018 to Singapore.
And now court documents, obtained by Stuff, detail the exact nature of Whitham’s offending.
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Read the full article at: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/125986083/kiwis-trail-of-crooked-cash–new-details-emerge-in-richard-whitham-case