Bankrupt builder

 

PHOTO: DAVID WHITE/STUFF Bankrupt builder Jaden Melgren wasn’t at work the day Stuff paid him a visit.

A bankrupt builder who left a trail of debts behind in Queenstown appears to have been running a new construction business in Auckland.

Jaden Melgren’s Queenstown-based True Line Builders Ltd was put into voluntary liquidation in July 2017 and out-of-pocket creditors are still trying to claw back almost $800,000.

He shifted to Auckland and set up building company Melcon Ltd a week later. That company was removed from the Companies Register after four months.

In July Melgren was adjudged bankrupt in the Auckland District Court, excluding him from managing or controlling a business.

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