The city of Richmond is now zero soil for a number of controversies.
The RCMP continues to investigate the purchase of gift cards by the city of Richmond, after a The survey on world news has revealed almost half a million dollars was spent on cards between 2022 and 2024.
A forensic audit also examines the last 10 years of purchase of gift cards in Richmond, where an employee has been dismissed.
The mayor of Richmond, Malcolm Brodie, told Global News: “Well, what I can say is on the problem of the gift card, we try to go to the bottom of this situation.”
Massive wages are also questioned. In 2024, Brodie’s remuneration totaled more than $ 379,000 – payments from the city, the Vancouver metro, Tralink and the Municipal Finance Authority.
Former OVAL Olympic CEO George Duncan was paid $ 582,000.
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DUFF Conacher with Democracy Watch commented: “People are paid $ 582,000 in a public sector position, I mean it’s crazy.”
He added that “the wages of these officials seem to be much more important than what should be paid to civil servants for this type of position.”
Recently, the Ovale Olympique and the City refused requests to disclose the costs of a 2022 European Junket to Olympic events.
Brodie says he was not aware. “I did not know this trip. I think this number of people sent was excessive. ”
Sources later told Global News that nearly $ 78,000 had been spent by sending eight people in Spain and Switzerland. This strongly contrasts with Vancouver, Whistler and West Vancouver, who all say that they have not made any trip linked to the Olympics since 2020, despite the events organized in 2010.
Meanwhile, a medico-legal audit of the Ovale Olympic continues. An external agency examines a possible fraudulent activity or questionable transactions.
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