Quebec anti-corruption unit descends on Public Security Department offices
Posted Jun 4, 2014 04:11:21 PM.
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QUEBEC – It appears that nobody is safe from the province’s anti-corruption squad, not even their own bosses.
Investigators descended on the Public Security Department Wednesday, the same department which oversees police forces including the anti-corruption unit known as UPAC.
The unit was interested in a warehouse in Quebec City that housed the department’s old office furniture and computer equipment.
A second seizure was also conducted at a Quebec City computer firm, which serves a number of government departments.
The Public Security Department confirmed the seizures in a statement and said it would co-operate with the unit’s investigation, which the department says began after a complaint was filed in 2013.
The unit did not wish to comment.
Opposition politicians were suprised by the move.
“This is, at first glance, actually a bit surprising, but it is also reassuring to the extent that I think it confirms that no one is above the law,” said Stephane Bergeron, a Parti Quebecois legislature member who was the minister of Public Security in the previous PQ minority government.
