An Ontario judge has dismissed two breach of trust charges against a former Liberal MP Raj Grewal.
Grewal left the federal Liberal caucus in 2018 after his gambling problem came to light and a public outcry ensued. He chose not to run for re-election in 2019.
The most salient evidence at issue had been that two Brampton-area businessmen who each provided a $200,000 loan to Grewal also attended events during Trudeau’s storied trip to India in 2018. But neither stated during the trial that they expected such access in exchange for the loans.Article content “The suggestion that people received favours in exchange for helping him out, helping out a fellow community member in need, there just wasn’t evidence to support that,” Hasan said.Advertisement 5We apologize, but this video has failed to load.In court, Corthorn said a reasonable jury given proper instruction would not have been able to render a guilty verdict. The inferences required to support the Crown’s theory could “neither reasonably nor logically be drawn,” she said.
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