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A Hamilton man has been jailed over an ACC scam, and his father has also been punished for lying to support his story.
Jonathan Adolph, 36, received a two and a half years imprisonment, after he made up details of a non-existent job to fraudulently claim ACC weekly compensation. He was also ordered to pay more than $100,000 reparation.
His father, Lloyd Adolph, lied to ACC to support his son's fictitious story and was sentenced to 150 hours community work.
Jonathan was injured in a fight with a real estate agent in 2006, but told ACC he had been injured while working at a hotel his father was a director of, despite never working there.
ACC says it collects levies to help people with genuine injury-related needs and the offending amounts to theft from honest, hard-working New Zealanders.
