Magnoli Props lists films including 2018′s Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Fantasy Island, A War Story and Adrift along with television series The Americans and New Zealand’s own Shortland Street as credits on its website.įrom its base in the suburb of Gonville, it markets custom-made, hand-finished products, including custom identity documents such as passports, driver’s licences, and birth certificates, to a global audience via its website. The charges resulted from a Customs investigation, codenamed Operation Eldorado, which began in November 2019 in response to information received from overseas enforcement agencies, including the United States Department of Homeland Security, about false identity documents being sold and exported from New Zealand.Ĭustoms’ investigations identified the illegal activity was being carried out by Magnoli Props and executed a search warrant at the business, which operated from Magnoli’s home.

The defendants each faced two representative charges of knowingly exporting goods for dishonest purposes under the Customs and Excise Act 2018, and two charges of unauthorised use of the name and emblem of the United Nations under the Flags, Emblems and Name Protection Act 1981. His two staff, son-in-law Kolbe Hungerford-Morgan, 38, was sentenced to two months of community detention and a $10,000 fine, and Magnoli’s daughter Xenia Hungerford-Morgan, 22, was discharged without conviction for her minor administrative role. Magnoli Props director Anthony Joseph John Magnoli was sentenced to three months of community detention and a $10,000 fine.

But on Thursday at Whanganui District Court, three people faced sentencing for their part in the sophisticated forgery ring.

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