The former chief executive and operations manager of a charity that offered domestic violence prevention services for Pacific Islanders have been charged by the Serious Fraud Office.
Tapualii Raewyn Uitime, the 47-year-old former operations manager of the defunct Pacific Island Safety and Prevention Project (the Project), faces 26 charges of dishonestly using a document and 11 charges of forgery.
Former chief executive Betty Leuina Sio, 54, faces four charges of dishonestly using a document.
The Auckland-based organisation ran from 2008 to 2018, by the end of June 2014 it was receiving government funding of about $2.5 million per annum.
The project offered a range of social support services including a Pacific cultural framework for addressing family violence, family violence education and domestic violence prevention programmes for men.
Ms Uitime and Ms Sio entered no plea when they appeared at the Manukau District Court today.
They have been remanded on bail to reappear at the Manukau District Court on 30 October.
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