A former employee of Fisher & Paykel Healthcare has been sentenced to eight months of home detention for receiving secret commissions from Middle Eastern clients and for deceiving his employer. Simon William Hall pleaded guilty in March to one Crimes Act charge of obtaining by deception and two charges under Section 8 of the Secret Commissions Act laid by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO). Hall committed the offences over the course of six years, from 2008 to 2014 while employed as an area manager in Auckland and dealing with companies in the Middle Eastern.
