Home detention for dishonest business activity at media agency

Glenda Mary Wynyard has been sentenced in the Auckland District Court to eight months of home detention.

On 27 March, Ms Wynyard was found guilty of 11 Crimes Act charges laid by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) following a five-week trial.

The former director and owner of The Media Counsel, a media placement agency, had faced charges of causing loss by deception, theft by person in a special relationship and dishonestly using a document. In Ms Wynyard’s role as Director she had redirected payments that were due to her accredited agency, Aegis, to repay a debt under an invoice factoring facility. She also presented cheques she knew would not be honoured and provided false and misleading information to the Print Media Accreditation Authority in order to gain accreditation.

Ms Wynyard indicated that she will be filing an appeal. She has been granted bail and the sentence has been suspended pending that appeal.

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