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Court rules former Winnipeg CAO accepted $327K bribe, owes city up to $700K

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A Manitoba court has ruled in favour of the City of Winnipeg’s civil claim that former chief administrative officer Phil Sheegl accepted a bribe and breached his duty as a city officer by accepting $327,000 from the contractor who built the city’s police headquarters.

In a 129-page decision issued Tuesday, Chief Justice Glenn Joyal of the Court of Queen’s Bench granted the city’s request for a summary judgment against Sheegl and his co-defendants under the torts of bribery and breach of fiduciary duty.

The city claimed Sheegl made up a land deal in Arizona with police headquarters contractor Armik Babakhanians of

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This story was originally published on  CBC News. To read the rest of this news worthy story, please visit https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/sheegl-judgment-city-arizona-deal-1.6386261?cmp=rss.

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