Controversial businessman Richard Freeman declares bankruptcy – Stuff.co.nz

A controversial Christchurch businessman who was once a director of a Headhunters-linked debt collecting firm has declared himself bankrupt.

Richard Logan Freeman, 52, a former heavyweight boxer and racing car driver, was put into bankruptcy on June 21. Its understood he declared himself insolvent after the High Court awarded $350,000 in damages against him earlier this year for making defamatory remarks about earthquake advocate Bryan Staples.

According to the Companies Office register, Freeman remains the director of three companies Black and White Property, Onyx Homes and Franchise Business Systems South Island.