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After a long list of raids conducted all over Laval last fall, the Quebec’s anti-corruption squad has caught up on the task again on early Thursday, making another series of arrests along with former Laval mayor, Gilles Vaillancourt, and many others. The spokesperson for L’Unité permanente anticorruption (UPAC), Anne-Frédérick Laurence, confirmed that an undisclosed number of arrest mandates were executed beginning at “about 6 a.m.”
However, she declined to confirm or deny the reports alleging that arrest of construction tycoon, Antonio Accurso. She explained that approximately 120 officers were deployed for the operation, though the number of locations was not disclosed. These recent arrests are a fresh phase of the UPAC investigation into the Laval long-running pattern of municipality’s governance of collusion, corruption and cronyism. Laval is Quebec’s second-largest city, where Vaillancourt held a seat on the city council for 39 years and the seat of mayor for last 23 years, after which he recently announced to give up public life on Nov. 9, 2012.
UPAC has labeled the arrests of Thursday as “Operation Honorer,” speaking of which Laurence informed that “many” more were taken into custody beyond Vaillancourt. Several sources were speculating the figure to be more than 40, including construction-industry figures and high-level officials associated with the former Vaillancourt administration. Police has scheduled a press conference for 10 a.m. at the headquarters of the Sûreté du Québec to brief about the recent events, though it was instructed that “there will be no questions.”
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