New Zealand Crimes

According to a survey result for year 2007, asset misappropriation remains most likely economic crime that is suffered by New Zealand 's organizations, having almost 60% of company's victim suffering by theft of assets as equipment or money. There was demonstrable gap however between that reality, what was perceived as most prevalent threat about just 32%, this form of crime is likely to occur at organizations. Threat of property infringement is present in New Zealand having 18% of the respondents regarding to this as most likely to their business and with 16% is reporting being victim of that crime having loss of more than 1 million New Zealand $.

 

In New Zealand 66% of economic crimes are involves by the person inside business or organization, which is a typical perpetrator in NZ. This survey indicates common reasons for the economic crimes being committed, unsurprisingly financial gain. In New Zealand only 36% of organizations didn't reported incidents of economic crimes to appropriate enforcement agencies indicating inconsistent approach.

 

Even surprisingly only 70% incidents were reported to organization's board, executive management and audit committees.

Money laundering

Respondents about 8% say that they have suffered from the incident of laundering of money in last 2 year, which is twice high globally and more than double resulted for Asian pacific Region. Respondent about one-quarter believe that they will be subjected to the money laundering within next two years.

 


Anti money laundering updated legislation, which is due to enacted in New Zealand before end of 2008. These changes will change fundamentally scope of existing rules to the cover money and will place heavy potential cost and compliance cost on reporting entities. There will need a good understanding of money laundering that how launders operate money, customer risk profile, their product and introduction of processes to ensure their risk assessment is kept current.