Dear Mr Kelly

Further to your email below we have looked into our archived files and
have found the required information.  However in the course of doing this,
it appears to us that the document you are seeking has already been
printed in the ODT
([1]http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/35320/...)
on 9 December 2008. 

Please can you confirm that this is the information that you are seeking,
and as such your request has been answered?

I look forward to your response.

Kind regards

Nick

Nick Paterson | General Manager, Fraud & Corruption | Serious Fraud Office
| PO Box 7124, Wellesley Street, Auckland | Level 6, 21 Queen Street,
Auckland 1010, New Zealand | Phone + 64 9 301 0142 | Mobile + 64 21 675
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-----Original Message-----

From: Andrew kelly
[2][mailto:[OIA #395 email]]

Sent: Saturday, 21 July 2012 10:06 a.m.

To: SERIOUS FRAUD OFFICE

Subject: Official Information Act request - Copy of correspondence - a
letter - held by the Serious Fraud Office.

     Dear Serious Fraud Office,

    

     In July 1998, a 'warning letter' was sent to Mr Ross Black, the

     then-Chairman of HealthCare Otago, by two Dunedin-based

     businessmen. In this, the two authors describe their dealings with

     now-convicted fraudster, Michael Andrew Swann.

    

     I am formally requesting a copy of that 1998 'warning letter',

     please.

    

     I am aware - thanks to the media - that HealthCare Otago and it

     succesor, the Otago District Health Board, subsequently could not

     find a copy of this letter. But that the Serious Fraud Office did

     uncover the letter during the course of their investigation into

     Swann's fraud 'sometime' in late 2006.

    

     It was also reported - in November 2006 - that an electronic copy

     of this same letter was sent by one of the two signatories to the

     then-Minister of Health, Peter Hodgson. And that Serious Fraud

     Office investigator Roger Small was also copied in.

    

     I am, of course, aware that - in December 2006 - the Otago Daily

     Times newspaper made an Official Information Act request to the

     Serious Fraud Office to make the letter public: And that, at that

     time, this request was refused.

    

     This is understandable - given the Serious Fraud Office

     investigation was still on-going at that time.

    

     However, that was six years ago. And since that time, Michael

     Andrew Swann has been found guilty on all three charges brought by

     the Serious Fraud Office (December 2008) - and was subsequently

     sentenced to prison (March 2009).

    

     And this is why I'm formally requesting a copy of the 1998 'warning

     letter'.

    

     Yours faithfully,

    

     Andrew Kelly

    

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