More Than 100 E-Mails Missing, Basi's Lawyer Says

"There are no documents related to this case in his office," she assured the court. Judge Bennett said Judge Dohm, who handled the case before it was assigned to her for trial, told her that "nothing he received did not go back into the box," to be returned to the Crown. Judge Dohm first became involved in the case when he issued search warrants for police to raid the legislature officers of Udhe Singh (Dave) Basi and Bobby Singh Virk, in December, 2003. At the time the two men, who subsequently were charged with fraud, money laundering and influence peddling, were ministerial aides involved in the government's plans to sell BC Rail. ... "There are at least ... somewhere between 100 and 140 e-mails that Mr. Copley asserted solicitor-client privilege over that have not been reviewed [by the court]," Mr. McCullough told Judge Bennett. ... http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080129.wbcbasi29/BNStory/National/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20080129.wbcbasi29

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