Charges laid against former Transportation Ministry employee in email deletion case
VICTORIA — Charges of wilfully making false statements to mislead or attempting to mislead British Columbia’s privacy commissioner have been laid against a former provincial government employee.
A special prosecutor approved two charges against George Gretes, who worked as a ministerial assistant in the Transportation Ministry, under the province’s Freedom of Information and Privacy Act.
The charges follow a report by privacy commissioner Elizabeth Denham who examined a whistleblower’s allegations that his supervisor deleted emails connected to a freedom-of-information request about the Highway of Tears investigation into missing and murdered women in northern B.C.
Gretes was suspended with pay last May.