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Former world-rated boxing champion, turned debt collector Sean Sullivan has landed himself in hot water for unlawfully trying to repossess goods.
Once ranked the No.7 welterweight in the world, Sullivan fell from grace in 2009, when he became the first person sent to prison for ripping off Housing New Zealand.
In 2007, Sullivan was acquitted, alongside another debt collector, of kidnapping a car dealer and trying to extort $21,700 from him.
Now, the Private Security Personnel Licensing Authority has reprimanded and fined him for using a false authority in an attempt to repossess more than $11,000, including furniture and stock worth nearly $10,000.
According to a recently released decision, Sullivan was hired by a woman to repossess the items from her form
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