The police have been referred to an investigation into National MP for New Plymouth David MacLeod's failure to report $178,394 in donations. 

MacLeod - a backbench MP - unveiled this last month, and was stood down from the Environment and Finance select committees. 

Senior Political Correspondent Barry Soper told Heather du Plessis-Allan “There’s a lot of question to be answered – you can’t just say ‘look, I’ve forgotten.” 

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