The Serious Fraud Office has filed 11 further charges against embattled ACT MP Donna Awatere Huata and a further six against her husband Wi Huata.
Awatere Huata, 54, and Huata, 42, appeared in Napier District Court on Tuesday charged with using a Pipi Foundation cheque for $6110 to gain a pecuniary advantage.
The Serious Fraud Office later said she would face a further 10 fraud charges and one of perverting the course of justice.
Those charges were filed today. Awatere Huata will face in total 11 charges of using a document -- a Pipi Foundation cheque made to cash -- and one charge of perverting the course of justice. The first eleven charges total $92,000.
Huata faces six charges of using Pipi Foundation cheques made to cash, totalling $58,000, as well as a charge of perverting the course of justice.
On Tuesday Awatere Huata vowed to vigorously fight the allegations and rejected a call by the ACT party to resign as an MP.
She is currently suspended by the party.
At the couple's court appearance on Tuesday they were remanded on bail without plea to November 25.
They were ordered to surrender their passports within 48 hours and to live at their Hawke's Bay home, or at a Wellington address for Awatere Huata.
- NZPA
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