2016-19 September: Colin Craig cited in court during defamation case taken against him relating to sexual harassment allegations
2007 – New Zealand Pacific Party MP Taito Philip Field is arrested on corruption and bribery charges. He eventually serves two years in prison
2005 Graham Capill, former leader of the Christian Heritage Party is convicted on paedophilia-related charges and serves six years in prison. Christian Heritage disbands the following year in the wake of the scandal.
2000 – Dover Samuels Labour Member of Parliament in New Zealand from 1996 to 2008 resigned as Minister of Maori Affairs pending an investigation into alleged sex crimes he had committed before he entered politics.
The police later cleared Samuels of all charges, and Samuels alleged that the accusations had political motivation
1999 – New Zealand First MP Tuariki John Delamere is forced to resign as Minister of Immigration after it emerged that he had approved permanent residency for a group of Chinese businessmen provided they invested generously in various Māori development schemes.
1995–96 – The "Antoinette Beck" affair: National/New Zealand First MP Michael Laws resigns after being subject to a conflict of interest inquiry over employing a company partly owned by his wife to conduct a poll, signed off by a non-existent "Antoinette Beck".
1984 – Independent MP John Kirk, the son of former Prime Minister Norman Kirk, absconds, owing more than $280,000. He is arrested in the US, held in prison, and then extradited to New Zealand
1977 – The Moyle Affair: Muldoon accuses
high-ranking Labour Party MP Colin Moyle of having been questioned by the police on suspicion of homosexual activities, at that time illegal in New Zealand. Moyle is forced to resign from parliament.
1976 –
Labour MP Gerald O'Brien is charged with molesting two boys, but the case is thrown out. Despite this, he was subsequently deselected as Labour's candidate for Island Bay and failed to secure re-election as an independent
1918 – L
abour MP Paddy Webb is controversially sent to jail for refusing military service
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