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n Auckland woman and a number of her relatives and associates have been found guilty of Crimes Act charges laid by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) following a 10 week trial in the Auckland District Court. The principal defendant in the extensive multi-million dollar mortgage fraud scheme – in which a Pakuranga property was involved - is 47-year-old Eli Devoy (aka Ellie Stone, aka Eli Ghorbani, aka Elaheh Ghorbani Sar Sangi). Mrs Devoy conducted a series of property sales and purchases between July 2007 and December 2010 which deceived lending institutions into approving mortgage applications that contained
false information and dowie, Kelston, Massey, supporting documents. West Harbour, New The six additional Lynn and Remuera. defendants who parSFO director Julie ticipated in Mrs Devoy’s Read said, “This is an scheme were Mehrimportant case for gendad Ghorbani (aka uine buyers who are Mohammad Ghorbani applying for mortgages Sarsangi), Mehrzad as the cost of borrowGhorbani (aka Mehdi ELI DEVOY ing is increased by this Ghorbani), Hassan Salarpour, sort of fraudulent conduct. We Nasrin Kardani, Mehran Ghor- will continue to work with banks bani (aka Massoud Ghorbani, aka who are targeted with false inforKen Williams) and Javad Toraby. mation. “Every lender should be The fraudulent scheme monitoring this risk and people involved 11 properties in the applying for mortgages should be Auckland area and amounted aware that there are significant to approximately $9.2 million. penalties for those who do not The suburbs where the proper- provide truthful information.” ties were located were One Tree The defendants will reappear Hill, Onehunga, Pakuranga, Glen- for sentencing on August 17. “SURGERY BY THE SEA”
Details of the verdicts:
■ Eli Devoy (aka Ellie Stone, aka
Eli Ghorbani, aka Elaheh Ghorbani Sar Sangi) – guilty of 20 charges, pleaded guilty to four charges prior to trial. ■ Mehrdad Ghorbani (aka Mohammad Ghorbani Sarsangi) – guilty of six charges. ■ Mehrzad Ghorbani (aka Mehdi Ghorbani) – guilty of four charges, pleaded guilty to one charge prior to trial. ■ Hassan Salarpour – not guilty. ■ Nasrin Kardani – guilty of three charges. ■ Mehran Ghorbani (aka Massoud Ghorbani, aka Ken Williams) – pleaded guilty to three charges prior to trial. ■ Javad Toraby – not guilty.
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