RESEND: Bridges denies Ross allegations, welcomes police inquiry

RESEND: Bridges denies Ross allegations, welcomes police inquiry
Pattrick Smellie
(Fixes garble in headline) By Pattrick Smellie Oct. 16 (BusinessDesk) - A defiant National Party leader, Simon Bridges, has emphatically denied claims by his dissident former colleague, Jami-Lee Ross, that Bridges was involved in arranging to conceal a $100,000 donation from a Chinese businessman. Of those allegations, Bridges told journalists: "They are baseless. "In relation to the Electoral Act, they are entirely false and I invite Jami-Lee Ross to take those matters to the police and I invite the police to investigate them fully...