Developers face fraud charges in B.C. bribery investigation
Last Updated: Wednesday, July 2, 2008 | 2:26 PM PT
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A B.C. judge ordered two Vancouver Island developers to face trial on charges involving the alleged bribery of a B.C. government official in 2003.
The charges were based on information obtained during a police raid on the provincial legislature in December 2003. The raid was part of an investigation into an unrelated matter involving the $1 billion privatization of BC Rail.
After hearing evidence presented at a preliminary hearing in Victoria Wednesday, Justice Ernie Quantz ordered Tony Young, 76, and Jim Duncan, 64, to stand trial on fraud and breach of trust charges related to allegations they paid $50,000 to David Basi, an assistant to then-finance minister Gary Collins, in 2003.
The Crown alleged the payment was made in connection with an application to strike a property from the province's Agricultural Land Reserve in order to make way for a residential subdivision near Sooke on southern Vancouver Island, now known as Sunriver Estates.
Basi himself has been charged with three counts of fraud and one count of breach of trust in relation to the incident.
He and two other former B.C. government officials also face additional charges of corruption over the BC Rail privatization. Pre-trial motions in that case are underway in Vancouver.
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