Canterbury Mornings

The Serious Fraud Office has commenced an investigation in relation to the New Zealand First Foundation, a spokesman has confirmed.This comes after the police last week referred the matter to the SFO – it took the office just eight days to decide an investigation was warranted.Last week, NZ First Leader Winston Peters was adamant that the SFO wouldn't find any wrongdoing on behalf of him, or his party."I was not involved in any way, shape or form," he told media last week.This comes after questions were raised last year about how the Foundation handled donations.The Electoral Commission said at the time it was looking into the matter.On Monday last week, it handed the probe over to the police – the police said it would be handing it over to the SFO.Last week Peters said he was pleased that the matter had been deferred to the police, then to the SFO.But he said NZ First was going to wait and co-operate with the SFO to provide all the information.He said he was not subject to any investigation nor was New Zeala