no trial until 2013 !!!!
wtf is wrong with the justice system if people have wait that long ?
A woman who faces more than 50 charges relating to online auction fraud has been warned she has one final chance to avoid prison.
Elmira Rafiee faces 55 charges of obtaining by deception, and one charge of using a computer for a dishonest purpose.
The 24-year-old allegedly scammed users of auction websites Trade Me and Sella by offering to sell them iPhones and iPads at too-good-to-be-true prices and never sending the goods.
Rafiee appeared in Auckland District Court today to apply for electronically monitored bail.
She was granted bail after she was initially charged in August, but has since breached its conditions three times.
Twice she was caught associating with her boyfriend Chadlyn Vanniekerk, whom she had been banned from seeing by a High Court judge after her first bail breach.
Rafiee was today granted electronic bail by Judge Semi Epati, who warned her if she breaches bail again she will probably be sent back to prison
until her trial, which is likely to be held in 2013."I'm appalled at her attitude towards court orders while she's on bail," he said.
"If she breaches again, that will be it. She will remain in custody for a very long time until all matters are resolved."
Judge Epati granted the bail only after Rafiee's lawyer Mark Ryan assured the court that her family would be willing to cut off their internet access to ensure she did not breach bail conditions that prevent her from going online.
Rafiee has also been given a 24-hour curfew, meaning she must stay at her parents' house all day, every day and no non-family members are allowed to visit unless her parents are present.
Rafiee's alleged fraud totals about $46,000, including $1100 which one complainant paid for an iPad she never received.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/5855497/Jail-threat-over-Trade-Me-scam
