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Jonathan Kirkpatrick pleads guilty to AUT fraud charges

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Jonathan Kirkpatrick,53, the former chief executive of the AUT Business Innovation Centre has pleaded guilty to defrauding the university of more than half a million dollars. Kirkpatrick resigned after an internal investigation found “accounting discrepencies” totalling $665,000. He pleaded guilty to seven fraud related charges when he appeared in the Auckland District Court…