Selling membership Mr Kirk’s job
NZPA Washington The former member of Parliament, Mr John Kirk, was earning a living selling memberships, in a singles club in north Dallas, Texas, before the F. 8.1. arrested him there on Wednesday, a reliable source said. Mr Kirk is now in a Dallas jail awaiting an extradition hearing on Tuesday. Agents arrested Mr Kirk “without resistance” in the office of his Dallas lawyer, Robert Muchmore, said a spokesman for the F. 8.1., Mr Parks Stearns. The arrest was based on an extradition warrant from
New Zealand, he said. This charged Mr Kirk, son of late Prime Minister, Norman Kirk, with violating New Zealand’s bankruptcy laws by leaving the country within 12 months of filing a bankruptcy petition, and taking more than $3OOO with him in cash and traveller’s cheques. The warrant also charged Mr Kirk with fraud by taking 32 gold krugerrands out of New Zealand.
“He will remain in Federal custody until the extradition hearing on June 25,” Mr Stearns said. There was no question of bail. Mr Kirk, member of Parliament for Sydenham
until last year’s New Zealand General Election, will be 38 on June 27. He is believed to have been in the United States since July last year. Mr Stearns said he had no report of the whereabouts of Mr Kirk’s wife, Yvonne, who. was believed to have been with him. The hearing on Tuesday will be in Dallas before Mr William Sanderson, jun. in the United States Magistrates’ Court for the northern district of Texas.
The prosecutor will be Mr William Alexander, of the United States Attorney’s office.
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