• Police are chasing assets linked to fraudster Joanne Harrison, who fleeced taxpayers of about $723,000 when she was a Ministry of Transport executive.

And a family home her husband owns is likely to be forfeited, the High Court in Wellington heard on Monday.

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Joanne Harrison, also known as Joanne Sharp, swindled hundreds of thousands of dollars from taxpayers when she worked at the Ministry of Transport.