Jami-Lee Ross, three Chinese businessmen plead not guilty to National Party donation charges

February 25, 2020

Former National Party MP Ross and three businessmen are charged over a series of donations to the party.

Former National MP Jami-Lee Ross and three Chinese businessmen have pleaded not guilty to fraud charges arising from a series of donations to the National Party.

Ross, along with Yikun Zhang, Shijia (Colin) Zheng and Hengjia (Joe) Zheng, have been charged by the Serious Fraud Office over two $100,000 donations the SFO alleges were broken up to slide under the disclosure threshold.

Today all four of the men entered not guilty pleas at the Auckland District Court.

The four appeared in the Auckland District Court this morning.

The court has ordered them to surrender their passports by 5pm.

As he headed into court today, Botany MP Ross told 1 NEWS he “just wants to get through” his first court appearance.

Flanked by his lawyers, the former National MP told media he’d speak to them after his first appearance. 

The three businessmen also charged by the Serious Fraud Office made no comment as they headed into court. 

The case has been remanded until June.

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