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The timeline of the BC Legislature Raids is the series of key dates associated with the investigation, trial and political outcomes related to the BC Legislature Raids. The public first became aware of the issue on December 28, 2003, when television cameras recorded "a shocking raid" by police officers into the legislative buildings of the provincial government of British Columbia (BC), Canada. Images of officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Victoria Police Department hauling boxes of evidence were widely broadcast. The offices searched belonged to Dave Basi and Bob Virk, ministerial assistants to two cabinet ministers. The main criminal trial ended in October 2010 with Virk and Basi pleading guilty to breach of trust. Public questions and controversies continue about payment of $6 million by government to cover their legal fees and whether more people were involved in the corruption activities. ==Lead-up to the raid== * Summer 2002: Victoria police and RCMP launch an investigation (project Everywhichway) involving drugs and organized crime. The probe centres on allegations of cocaine being shipped from Victoria and sold in Toronto.〔 * May 13, 2003, British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell announced that the government would sell the operations of BC Rail (including all of the assets other than the rail right-of-way). Not selling the railway had been a specific campaign promise in the previous election. Campbell maintained that he was keeping this promise, by proposing to retain ownership of the right-of-way and only leasing the land to the operator.〔Schmidt, Paul (May 2003). "British Columbia seeks new BC Rail operator, retains right-of-way". Trains: p.11.〕 * Fall 2003: Nine people are arrested in Toronto, Vancouver, and Victoria as part of the investigation into the cocaine conspiracy.〔 During the Everywhichway investigation, wiretapped conversations led police to investigate potential influence peddling by non-elected political appointees in government. Police are given court approval to monitor the e-mails and phones of two ministerial assistants in their government offices. The police have been clear in stating that no politicians were ever suspected of wrongdoing. At one point, police inadvertently listened to a phone conversation between the finance minister and Premier Gordon Campbell.〔 * Nov. 25, 2003, it was announced that Canadian National's (CN) bid of $1 billion had won the competition for BC Rail. The bid was accepted over those of several other companies, including OmniTrax. The transaction was closed on July 15, 2004. * Dec. 1, 2003 - BC Attorney General Geoff Plant is advised by ministry staff that a case requires the appointment of a special prosecutor and may involve a search of the BC legislature.〔 * Dec. 9, 2003 - Police find $30,000 in suspected drug money during a search of the house in Saanich of Mandeep Singh Sandhu. His cousin Rob Dosanjh, a Victoria police officer, will be convicted in 2006 based on wiretap evidence of encouraging Sandhu to lie to police about the source of the money.〔〔 〕 * Dec. 11, 2003 - William Berardino is appointed special prosecutor to oversee an investigation involving Victoria police officer Dosanjh and non-elected appointees at the legislature.〔 In accordance with established practice, very few people in the senior levels of provincial government are informed of the appointment or know about the investigation.〔〔 * Dec. 12, 2003 - RCMP conduct a video surveillance of senior executives of OmniTRAX—one of three bidders for BC Rail, the province's railway company—as they dine with Finance Minister Gary Collins.〔 〕 *Dec. 27, 2003 - BC Solicitor General Rich Coleman calls Premier of British Columbia Gordon Campbell, who is on vacation in Hawaii. Coleman tells the premier, the highest provincial political office, to expect an important call in the next days but does not give further details.〔 *Dec. 28, 2003 - Television cameras record "a shocking raid" by police officers into the legislative buildings of the provincial government of British Columbia (BC), Canada. Images of officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Victoria Police Department hauling boxes of evidence are widely broadcast. The offices searched belonged to Dave Basi, ministerial assistant to then-finance minister Gary Collins and Bob Virk, assistant to then-transportation minister Judith Reid.〔 *Also on the same day, Dec. 28, 2003, police searched three other locations: * *the home of Bruce Clark, chief BC fundraiser for the federal Liberal Party of Canada, and brother to then-deputy premier Christy Clark; * *the Victoria office of Pilothouse Communications director Brian Kieran; * *the Vancouver office of the other Pilothouse director, Erik Bornmann, who at the time was communications director for the BC chapter of the federal Liberal Party of Canada.〔 *Dec. 29, 2003 - Dave Basi is fired from his job as ministerial assistant to B.C. Finance Minister Gary Collins. Virk is suspended with pay and is later terminated.〔 * Dec. 30, 2003 - Prime Minister of Canada Paul Martin states that people with links to the investigation, including Bornmann, will not be removed from their positions within the federal Liberal Party of Canada.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Timeline of BC Legislature Raids」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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