The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) probe into the Samoan Independent Seventh Day Adventist Church (SISDAC) - which has branches in New Zealand, Australia and Samoa - comes amid a seperate investigation by Samoa's Central Bank into the church.
While the DIA investigation, which is being conducted under the Charities Act 2005, is not focused on the church's links to the cryptocurrency OneCoin - which US and Samoan authorities have labelled a "hybrid ponzi-pyramid scheme" - it has uncovered information about OneCoin, the department said.
