Winston denies there was any donation at all
Okay the Herald do seem to be trying to get some further info out of Winston before Wednesday – well done. Claire Trevett writes:
Yesterday Mr Peters refused to say where the money was from and appeared to deny its existence.
When asked, Mr Peters said: “There’s no question ever that any such a thing ever did happen.”
Asked if that meant “there was no big anonymous donation”, Mr Peters said “precisely”. When further pressed he said: “I have no idea what is being spoken of because no such thing ever happened.”
So there was no donation at all. Dail Jones was totally mistaken it seems. How could this happen? Here’s the reasons I can think of:
- Dail Jones confused his personal bank account with NZ First’s, when he claimed he had found a close to $100,000 mystery deposit
- It wasn’t a donation, it was an interest free loan!
- The donation was actually the term deposit maturing, and Jones got them confused (but it was maturing in December we were told)
- The money is actually aid money for North Korea from Condi, which Winston is meant to pass on.
Perhaps Dail Jones could release a copy of the bank statement to clear things up.