MONTREAL — A veteran Montreal police officer and his now-retired partner were arrested Thursday and accused of leaking confidential information to criminal bikers as well as the Russian Mafia.
A third man, a civilian who operates a security business with the retired police officer, was also arrested.
The three were to appear in court Friday or Saturday to be charged with counts relating to the unlawful use of a computer and the transmission of confidential police information.
Cmdr. Andre Durocher said the information was obtained from police computers and given to biker gangs and some other organized crime groups, such as the Russian Mafia and some of its eastern European counterparts.
“This does not mean it was exclusively those groups,” Durocher said in an interview.
“But those were among some of the groups which we have information about that leads us to believe (the data) was given to them.”
At an earlier news conference, police chief Michel Sarrazin would not elaborate on exactly which organized crime groups received the information, or what it contained, but said it was passed along through a middle Manitoba
