A Dunedin High Court jury has resumed deliberations in the trial of two men accused of misappropriating almost $17 million from the Otago District Health Board.
The jury had previously stopped for about an hour to have dinner.
This morning, the jurors retired at 10.30 after Justice Stevens had spent 90 minutes summing up the case to them.
Michael Swann (47), the board's former chief information officer, and Kerry Harford (48) a Queenstown surveyor, both deny acting dishonestly or fraudulently by using 198 invoices from Sonnford Solutions, a company formed by Harford, to charge the board $16.9 million for IT-related services the Crown says were never provided.
During the three-week trial, the jury heard evidence from more than 40 prosecution witnesses as well as from Swann himself who said what the board was being charged for was risk mitigation insurance for the three main hospital servers.
