Police raised possibility of others involved in Dunedin City Council Citifleet ... - The Southland Times
It had been billed as the work of a sole suspect, but a police file into the investigation of the theft of 152 cars from the Dunedin City Council fingers the "highly suspicious" activity of another unnamed person. In June, fleet manager Brent Bachop was named by police as the sole person responsible. The police investigation followed a Deloitte's report which suggested six potential areas of criminal activities: 152 missing vehicles, credit card/fuel card spending, purchase of a motorbike, council vehicle conversion and cashing cheques for... The subsequent police investigation was to determine if anyone other than Bachop was involved in fraudulent activity, and if anyone had culpability as to the offending, or as a receiver. "Almost without exception the purchasers of the vehicles stated that they believed (Bachop) was entitled to sell the vehicles and had no reason to believe that he was not forwarding their money onto council," the report, which has been released... However, the heavily redacted report states that the "only possible exception to this was the sale (name withheld) made of a Mazda 3 to (name withheld). That seller is understood to be Bachop, with police interviewing the person who purchased the vehicle. Bachop was involved in a number of trade-ins involving a council vehicle when buying a. Source: www.stuff.co.nz
