by Red Scribble | Jan 2, 2026 | Governance
The Governance Gap: A Succession EquationA Forensic Accountant’s analysis of a high-level resignation and the liability it leaves behind.The ContextOn 28 November 2025, the head of the presidential office, Andriy Yermak, resigned. The trigger was a corruption...
by Red Scribble | Dec 26, 2025 | Governance
The ContextOn 24 November 2025, the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed a $4,677,552 civil penalty on a US individual investor. The individual, acting through a real estate company, knowingly mortgaged, renovated, and sold a blocked property owned by a...
by Red Scribble | Dec 26, 2025 | Governance
The ContextIn April 2022, a worker at ME Jukes & Son in Gisborne was killed after becoming trapped in a waste shredder. In 2025, Judge Warren Cathcart found the company guilty of a charge under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015. The specific fine is pending,...
by Red Scribble | Dec 26, 2025 | Governance
The ContextIn June 2025, the Privacy Commissioner cleared Foodstuffs North Island’s facial recognition trial, which scanned 226 million faces across 25 stores. The system generated 1,742 alerts. Six months later, a woman in Rotorua was misidentified and removed from a...
by Red Scribble | Dec 19, 2025 | Governance
The ContextOn 15 December 2025, New Zealand Police notified the Privacy Commissioner of a critical data breach. A technical defect in their Incident Management Tool, active from 4-15 December, failed to redact sensitive information in case disclosure packages sent to...
by Red Scribble | Dec 18, 2025 | Governance
The ContextIn January 2025, Meta terminated its core DEI programmes. The internal memo cited a “charged” legal landscape. The real trigger was a meeting between Mark Zuckerberg and Trump advisor Stephen Miller in late 2024, where Zuckerberg assured him of...