“Reduced to its essentials, the information provided in the ITO was nothing more than speculation, gossip and rumour,” Nordheimer wrote. An international corruption case involving former top executives from engineering giant SNC-Lavalin collapsed in a Toronto courtroom Friday after a judge threw out all wiretap evidence and rebuked the RCMP for its conduct in the investigation. This included information gleaned from four “tipsters.” Information from one of the four tipsters was considered general in nature and not relied upon. As for the other three, Nordheimer said the RCMP never spoke with tipsters no. (who) was also engaged in corrupt practices with respect to the CSC process itself,” the judge said.

Source: thestar February 10, 2017 15:30 UTC