The Banker, the Escorts and the $18 Million

Television (Full Length) – 2011

It's not just the dollars that these characters got away with...it's all the faith and trust and the good side of people and the world is a safe and reliable place. I'm sorry, you got it wrong this time.
– Psychologist Ian Miller on the huge damage fraudsters leave in their wake

It's the challenge; 'let's take it to the next step, let me try a little bit further.' It's a game that gets more and more complicated.
– Psychologist Ian Miller on the likely urges inside Stephen Versalko's head

Well he was just Stephen...a nice person who looked after my money transactions and he was just very, very pleasant.
– Former client 'Evelyn' on convicted fraudster Stephen Versalko

He probably was very different to me personally because I knew the sexual side of him, totally different side of him, and when he went back to work he was mister straight man...
– Former escort 'Esther' describes her connection with Stephen Versalko

He was such an inconsequential little man. You would never have thought he would do what he did. But he was a very clever man. I don't know how he wasn't caught sooner.
– An unnamed elderly victim of Stephen Versalko, The NZ Herald, 6 February 2014