Johnny's former girlfriend Amanda Baker who he lived with in Auckland told Newshub he was furious when he found out their office space was a luxury home.

She says Green went ahead and rented out a five bedroom house, on the Hamilton river with a spa to throw parties which came out of the Danger’s Lager earnings.

In January, two transactions were made totalling $2886.28 from the Scotch Fileha account into Green’s personal account with a reference as 'Bay Dreams Tickets'.

After going into a bank and obtaining a month worth of statements, Amanda says Bennett was livid when he saw the transaction for the festival which she says Green "bought for all his friends in Hamilton" which she says was never ever discussed with Johnny, "not once". He also noticed $10,520 moved into the Relinquish account without his knowing.

"Johnny spoke to my step dad Mark and he was not happy, he knows as an experienced business owner that you can’t just be taking money putting it into accounts and buying whatever you want with company money," Amanda says.

She says Bennett invited Green over to the home he was living at with Baker’s mum and step father, Mark, when the group confronted Green.

"Daniel came over for a meeting not knowing what was about to happen, that Mark and Johnny were going to confront him. He played it off like it was not an issue; 'didn’t think you would care bro as I would just pay it back,' telling him not to stress about it and he will pay it back by next week."



'Dodgy Daniel'

Bennett's parents Gina and Steven met Green for the first time at the crematorium in Snapper Rock after their son’s death.



The family had planned a trip to Thailand for their daughter's 21st birthday, which they decided to honour despite Bennett's death, believing after much consideration he wouldn't want them to throw it in.



When they returned, it had been sixteen days since Bennett passed away when Gina contacted Westpac NZ and notified the bank of their son's death.



A lengthy battle with Westpac NZ ensued as they attempted to get signing authority on the accounts, initially to find out if the company had been running at a profit or a loss. Bennett's parents found out the brewery bill was sitting $330,000 through word of mouth between a Steam Brewing employee and one his their son's friends.

The Bennetts met with Green in the same week. They told him that Johnny's father Steven had inherited the 85 percent shares of the company and expressed their wish for the beer to continue once they were able to look at the accounts.



Green refused to share with them any of the bank account statements and told them he had sorted out the bill with Steam Brewing when Steven confronted him about it. Green asked for a month to get everything else in order.

"He said 'just give me a month and I'll get it all sorted, you can come on board, I'll need your help'," Steven says. "So we gave him a month and that was it, we never saw him again, we still have not seen him to this day. He could have given us the accounts,' Gina says.

"Everything was lie after lie after lie, said he'd come and see us, and never did. Multiple times he told us he would sort it out but it just did not happen. Dodgy Daniel."



Gina and Steven Bennett met with the Steam Brewing's owner, Steve Kermode. He told them the outstanding debt with Steam Brewing alone was not cleared.

"Straight away when we had the meeting with Steve he told us none of the bills had been paid since November to him, I knew Daniel Green was up to something," Gina says.