Owen Glenn reading a statement to the Privileges Committee this afternoon. Photo / Mark Mitchell

Owen Glenn reading a statement to the Privileges Committee this afternoon. Photo / Mark Mitchell

Owen Glenn today produced a paper trail of phone calls, emails and an independent witness to apparently contradict Mr Peters position that he never solicited a $100,000 donation from the Monaco-based billionaire.

Mr Glenn appeared before Parliament's privileges committee, which is considering whether Mr Peters broke Parliament's rules about declaring gifts or debts over Mr Glenn's donation.

Mr Peters denied knowing about the donation until July this year and said he did not ask for it.

Mr Glenn said Mr Peters called and left a message on his telephone service on December 5, 2005.

Mr Glenn said he returned the call and Mr Peters asked for financial assistance.

He then checked with Labour Party president Mike Williams whether it would assist Labour, as that was his only intention.

He had thought Mr Williams would have told his colleagues, but he did not know this for a fact.

Mr Williams took some time to get back him and Mr Glenn assumed that this was to make sure Labour did not object.

After this he talked to Mr Peters.

"I called Mr Peters on 14 December 2005 to inform him that I agreed to contribute."

Mr Glenn provided phone records to show the call to Mr Peters' cellphone.

Shortly after the call, Mr Glenn got an email from Mr Peters' lawyer Brian Henry who referred to the call from "my client".

Mr Peters said the request for money was made in a phone call by Mr Henry at his own instigation and without his knowledge.

In the hearing today Labour MP Russell Fairbrother tried to suggest the person on the end of the phone could be Wayne Peters - Mr Peters' brother - saying they had similar voices.

Mr Glenn said he had no doubt he was talking to Mr Peters and the money was to him and that he asked for it help pay his legal costs.

"He was speaking to me as Winston Peters...I have no doubt in my mind it was him."

In today's hearing, NZ First MP Dail Jones suggested it could have been Mr Henry on the end of Mr Peters cellphone.

Mr Glenn said he had never talked to Mr Henry.