The woman who defrauded the Ministry of Transport of $726,000 will remain in prison after being denied parole.
Joanne Harrison is serving three years and seven months after pleading guilty to three charges of dishonestly taking or using a document, NZ Herald reports.
The board found Harrison poses “an undue risk to the safety of the community”.
Her next parole hearing will come up in March next year.
Harrison’s crimes forced her former boss, ex-Ministry of Transport chief executive Martin Matthews, to resign from his new role as auditor-general in August.
