Enterprise
2 Nov, 2021 04:32 AM
Ngākau Aroha Investments Ltd and Energy to Me Aotearoa Tapui Ltd co-owner Alex Tuira
Former Ngāi Tahu chair Sir Mark Solomon is amongst a gaggle of buyers claiming to have misplaced cash because the Critical Fraud Workplace investigates a pair of Christchurch businesspeople.
The SFO stated right now it had executed search warrants as a part of an investigation regarding Thomas Alexander Tuira (referred to as Alex Turia), Aroha Awhinanui Tuira and their firms Ngākau Aroha Investments and Energy to Me Aotearoa Tapui.
The company is in search of info from the general public which may be related to the investigation.
Solomon, who was chair of Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu for 18 years, instructed Stuff he and family and friends had invested about $2 million in Energy to Me, an internet site providing academic e-learning programs, about 18 months in the past.
Archived web sites for Energy to Me describe the operation as based and run by Alex Tuira that offered “profitable methods for private empowerment and monetary literacy” together with in Christchurch faculty Te Pā Ō Rākaihautū.
Tuira, described as a “enterprise and private finance methods,” listed a spread of self-help programmes as his major {qualifications}, together with programs by Tony Robbins, Robert Kiyosaki and Jordan Belfort, aka the Wolf of Wall Avenue.
Corporations Workplace data present there are 34 shareholders in Energy to Me Aotearoa Tapui, together with a 5.31 per cent holding by former Ngai Tahu chief working officer Julian Wilcox and a number of other parcels held by members of the Solomon household.
The SFO operates beneath two units of investigative powers.
Half 1 of the SFO Act supplies that it could act the place the director “has cause to suspect that an investigation into the affairs of any individual could disclose critical or advanced fraud”.
Half 2 of the SFO Act supplies the SFO with extra intensive powers the place: “… the director has affordable grounds to imagine that an offence involving critical or advanced fraud could have been dedicated …”
A short assertion issued this morning stated no additional remark shall be made by the SFO whereas the investigation is underway.