Helen Clark knew of SFO inquiry before public announcement

Helen Clark today accused the SFO of leaking the inquiry into the Winston Peters/Owen Glenn /Helen Clark donation scandal to the National Party.

Both the SFO and the National Party of course denied it because it was palpably untrue.

Ms Clark latter conceded that the leak may have come from the police or another government organisation-not true again and largely unimportant in the grand scheme of things.

The latest on Clark's accusations of interference by the SFO is that Clark knew on the Wednesday before the SFO announced the next day that Peters would be investigated by the organisation.

This is according to Fran O'Sullivan on Newstalk ZB news on a late news bulletin, Monday 1 Sept.

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