Urewera trial: Ex-MP's car examined

The accused - (from left) Te Rangikaiwhira Kemara, Emily Felicity Bailey, Urs Signer and Tame Wairere Iti - in the dock in the High Court at Auckland Photo / Brett Phibbs

A police investigation into alleged military-style training camps was so wide-ranging that police drove to Ngaruawahia to look at a car owned by former MP Nandor Tanczos, a court has been told.

Tame Wairere Iti, Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara, Emily Felicity Bailey and Urs Signer are on trial in the High Court at Auckland on charges of possessing guns and belonging to an organised criminal group in the Urewera Ranges, with objectives including murder, arson and using guns against the police.

All four deny the charges.

Detective Hamish McDonald confirmed to defence lawyer Val Nisbet today that he was asked as part of the police investigation to look at a car part-owned by the former Green Party MP.

"The information came to me and I probably checked out the address as part of my enquiry that's what I did. As the information came to me, that's what I did,'' Mr McDonald said.

He confirmed to Mr Nisbet that it showed how "wide-ranging'' the police investigation was.

The court has heard from a firearms dealer who owned a shop on Auckland's North Shore.

Wayne Dil said he sold an AK47 and another rifle to Kemara.

He said Kemara also offered to design him a website for his firearms business in exchange for a flare launcher.

Mr Dil said Kemara came to him with an L1A1 rifle in parts and asked him to "make it legal''

The court has previously heard that Kemara had a firearms licence.