Saturday, June 20, 2020

did collapse of E-Pirate case in Jan 2019 influence RCMP response to Wortman CI inquiries?


Mistake could have cost CI their life : mistake did cost BC a prominent money-laundering conviction 
Crown prosecutors inadvertently exposed an RCMP informant to the defence team just before the expected January 2019  “E-PIRATE” trial that was the result of a four year long , highly expensive, highly dangerous operation against just one firm and just one couple that allegedly laundered over a $ billion in illegal cash from their tiny Richmond BC office.

The BC Attorney General naturally hit the roof as the issue was highly politically explosive in BC and now it appeared that the federal RCMP had produced the files that both they and the provincial prosecution service had failed to vet for possible leaks of CIs’ identities.

If the CI had died as a result, the number of people willing to become RCMP CIs and undercover agents would drop drastically.

To shore up confidence in RCMP-informant relationships in the year since, I suspect the RCMP will have doubled down and resolved, at the highest levels, to never ever admit the dead Gabe Wortman was a CI or agent - not unless the Supreme Court of Canada makes them....

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