Accurso: La Presse reveals documents

The trial of Tony Accurso and three others was halted last year based on the Jordan ruling, because it had taken too long to come to court – at least partly because the defense wanted to examine the 802 boxes of evidence collected by police. But now La Presse has seen this evidence, and Vincent Larouche writes that police say the money involved did not come from legitimate activities and was used for bribes paid between 2005 and 2008 to tax officials. The money had ping‑ponged among tax havens like Panama and Singapore before landing in Swiss bank accounts, where the authorities flagged the situation as unusual.

The line about pornography in the lede is something of a misdirection. It isn’t a story about pornography.

Larouche reminds us that, to date, Accurso and his associates are officially innocent of all crime.