14 Jul 2008

Peters describes Glenn donation report as "fiction"

6:08 am on 14 July 2008

New Zealand First has dismissed a new report that the party received money from the Labour Party's biggest donor at the last election, Owen Glenn.

Party leader Winston Peters was questioned about Mr Glenn in February, after then-party president Dail Jones said New Zealand First had received a five-figure anonymous donation.

Mr Peter said then that the money was a consolidation of party funds and Mr Jones was mistaken.

Now The New Zealand Herald has reported that Mr Glenn admitted making a donation to New Zealand First in an email to a public relations consultant.

But Mr Peters says the report is a work of fiction.

Mr Glenn will not comment.