The OBA chairman has not come under pressure to come up with a report into a campaign donation by US tycoon Nathan Landow which gives the party a clean bill of health, Premier Michael Dunkley said last night.

Mr Dunkley said: “Mr Hollis will speak for himself when he is ready, and I have every confidence in him.

“He knows his responsibilities very well and I don’t need to tell him what his responsibilities are.”

When asked if he had put Mr Hollis under pressure, he said: “Not at all.”

The investigation was launched just before Craig Cannonier resigned as Premier amid controversy over a trip he made with Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell, then-Attorney General Mark Pettingill and Mr Cannonier’s business associate Stephen DaCosta on Landow’s private jet last March. The purpose of the trip was to discuss potential investment in Bermuda.

More than a year later it emerged that Mr Landow and other US businessmen had donated $300,000 to the OBA in the run-up to the December 2012 general election after meeting Mr Cannonier in the US.

The cash was said to have gone to the OBA-linked Bermuda Political Action Club.

Mr Hollis launched his probe in mid-May after confirming the party did not receive the cash donated by Mr Landow and his associates.

Mr Cannonier, who denied any wrongdoing, resigned a few days later and was replaced as Premier by Mr Dunkley.

Mr Dunkley made his comments last night after TV news reports said that Mr Hollis had come under pressure to produce a report showing no wrongdoing by anyone involved.

Mr Hollis is off the Island and was not available for comment last night. But earlier he said that he “had not authorised any release.”

He told The Royal Gazette earlier this week that investigation was still “active and ongoing.”