B.C.’s director of civil forfeiture has won a bid to have its case involving the Hells Angels club in Nanaimo heard by Canada's highest court.
The case stems from a police investigation called Project Halo into the Vancouver Island club's activities between 2001 and 2003.
During that time, Crown lawyers were able to get authorization for three wiretaps to monitor private communications.
The probe ultimately did not lead to any criminal charges because there wasn't enough admissible evidence.
But the director of civil forfeiture stepped in to try to seize the club's property, including its clubhouse, if it could prove illegal activity was going on.
Lawyers for the Hells Angels have been trying to unseal the affidavits used to obtain the wiretaps.
The provincial government has been trying to stop that, and now has been granted leave to appeal at the Supreme Court of Canada with costs.
http://www.cknw.com/news/vancouver/story.aspx/story.aspx?ID=1983917
The case stems from a police investigation called Project Halo into the Vancouver Island club's activities between 2001 and 2003.
During that time, Crown lawyers were able to get authorization for three wiretaps to monitor private communications.
The probe ultimately did not lead to any criminal charges because there wasn't enough admissible evidence.
But the director of civil forfeiture stepped in to try to seize the club's property, including its clubhouse, if it could prove illegal activity was going on.
Lawyers for the Hells Angels have been trying to unseal the affidavits used to obtain the wiretaps.
The provincial government has been trying to stop that, and now has been granted leave to appeal at the Supreme Court of Canada with costs.
http://www.cknw.com/news/vancouver/story.aspx/story.aspx?ID=1983917