DUP leader Peter Robinson rejects pay claims linked to Nama assets sale

Democratic Unionist Party leader Peter Robinson has rejected allegations he was to receive any payment linked to Northern Ireland’s largest ever property sale.

Dismissing as baseless the accusations made to a Stormont scrutiny committee, Mr Robinson, who has temporarily stood aside as first minister to facilitate talks to save the devolved Assembly at Stormont, said he would be willing to appear before MLAs.

In a hard-hitting statement, Mr Robinson said: “I repeat, I neither received, expected to receive, sought, nor was I offered a single penny as a result of the Nama sale.