Special prosecutor to help with probe of UCP leadership vote
The Alberta government says a special out-of-province prosecutor will assist in a criminal fraud investigation into the United Conservative Party leadership race won by Jason Kenney before he became premier.
Eric Tolppanen, head of the Alberta Crown Prosecution Service, says an agreement is in place to get help from an Ontario prosecutor. The prosecutor’s name has not been released.
The Crown first announced in May that it was seeking an out-of-province lawyer and Tolppanen, in a statement Wednesday, said someone was put in place immediately afterward.
“This independent extra-provincial prosecutor will be responsible for providing advice to the police at their request. Prosecutors do not oversee investigations,” he said.