Photo: People's PartyA New Zealand political party’s general secretary has been charged over failing to properly declare more than $200,000 in donations. Police charged New Zealand People’s Party general secretary Anil Kumar Sharma with breaching the Electoral Act by failing to correctly file details of significant donations with the Electoral Commission. The law requires a party secretary to file a return for every party donation exceeding $30,000, including when aggregated with all previous donations from the donor in the past 12 months. A return must be filed within 10 working days of the donation being received by the party secretary, the Act requires. The New Zealand People’s Party was formed in 2015 and in last year’s elections gained just under 1890 votes.

Source: Otago Daily Times October 08, 2018 00:33 UTC