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DHB fraudster to serve new sentence concurrently

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Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:37p.m.

Disgraced former Otago DHB chief information officer, Michael Swann, has been sentenced for accepting over $700,000 in bribes.

The 48-year-old Swann is infamous for defrauding the board of almost $17 million and appeared today at Dunedin's High Court.

He received 20 months for accepting the bribes from a friend he hired, but will be serving the sentence alongside his current jail time.

Swann is currently 11 months into a nine-and-a-half-year sentence with a minimum non-parole period of four years and six months.

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12 Feb 2010 12:17p.m.

Ian wrote:

Got to agree with Cynical,Concurrent sentences are just a bit of extra grist for the legal money making machine.
Apart from lining the pockets of lawyers and so called judges,concurrent sentences mean Nothing. They're a joke.

12 Feb 2010 09:09a.m.

cynical wrote:

What is the point of serving this concurrently? Is this just to keep the legal fraternity busy, happy and well paid?
Concurrent sentencing should be scrapped urgently, no matter what the crimes.