The OBA is to tighten up its administration in the wake of a report into the handling of a donation to a party-linked grassroots organisation, chairman Thad Hollis said last night.

“There are just things you can come up with — tidy up administrative things that were not in the scope of what the report was about. Things we need to be a little tight about,” he said. “That’s all part of the process and was in the conclusion.”

He wrote in the report that he had “discovered in the course of this investigation other matters of equal concern.”

Mr Hollis declined to be specific about the areas of concern.

But he said: “That’s what we’re putting into place. That’s what the executive is going to be doing, That’s what we’re going to do — just leave it at that,”

Mr Hollis was speaking after a long-awaited report into a $350,000 donation to the OBA-linked Bermuda Political Action Club by US tycoon Nathan Landow and a group of business associates in America was released on Friday.

The existence of the money — said to be used for a campaign to mobilise voters in the run-up to the 2012 general election — was not known to party chiefs until 18 months later, which prompted Mr Hollis to launch the probe into the affair.

The account — the existence of which was known to OBA campaign chairman Michael Fahy, although not the party executive — had two signatories, US-based OBA political consultant Derrick Green and Stephen DeCosta, a business associate of then-Premier Craig Cannonier.

The report slated the lack of proper accounting for the use of the money and said its establishment was against party rules.

Mr Hollis said he had not had a chance to discuss the report with Premier Michael Dunkley — but added he would do so this week.

“I am not aware of any concerns over actions taken by my Ministerial colleagues,” Mr Dunkley said last night.

“If they were brought to my attention, I would deal with them accordingly. I have full confidence in my ministerial colleagues.”

Mr Dunkley declined to comment on any further action that might be taken as a result of the report.

He said: “Any discussions we have within the party will be conducted at central executive levels and we will go from there.”