Third OPI director gets community service

FORMER OPI director and MFS Pacific deputy CEO Craig White will serve 250 hours' community service for misleading statements made in a prospectus.

A THIRD director of a finance company that collapsed leaving 10,000 investors owed nearly $NZ250 million ($A221.78 million), has been sentenced to community service.

CRAIG White, a former director of OPI on Wednesday was sentenced at the High Court in Auckland to 250 hours' community service and ordered to pay $A100,000 in reparations over two charges arising from complaints by the market watchdog.