Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum charged with 14 offences
Source: Torstar
MONTREAL—Montreal MayorMichael Applebaumwas arrested at his home by anti-corruption officers Monday morning and charged with 14 offences.
“Tens of thousands” of dollars were paid in bribes in return for permit approvals, police said at the mid-morning news conference. Police said the information had been collected in March.
Two former associates of Applebaum, who were also arrested Monday morning, face similar charges, Lafreniere and the Sûreté de Québec said at a news conference.
Saulie Zajdel is charged with five counts and Jean Yves Bisson with four related to the years-long investigation into corruption in and around Montreal.
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Ex-Tory adviser Saulie Zajdel arrested in corruption probe
A little over a year ago, Saulie Zajdel joined Stephen Harper for a happy-hour pub stop in Montreal as the Conservatives' best hope to win their first seat in the city in a quarter-century.
Today, Zajdel is under arrest.
The Conservative election candidate was picked up along with Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum and slapped with five charges from acts allegedly committed back in his days as a municipal councillor — including bribery, breach of trust, fraud and corruption linked to alleged activities that took place between Jan. 1, 2007, and Dec. 31, 2008.
Cotler had raised concerns that Zajdel was earning a government paycheque while trying to perform MP-like duties in his Montreal riding.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/06/17/pol-cp-saulie-zajdel-montreal-arrests.html
Saulie Zajdel, who ran as the Conservative candidate in the 2011 federal election and was later hired as an adviser to Harper government, was arrested by Quebec's anti-corruption unit Monday. (Graham Hughes/Canadian Press
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