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Ottawa police Chief Charles Bordeleau has called for the Ontario Provincial Police to investigate senior police employees after a lawyer alleged fraud and evidence manipulation in an SIU investigation, the Citizen has learned.

On Monday, Ottawa lawyer Michael Edelson sent letters to Bordeleau and two Ontario cabinet ministers requesting the OPP investigate the actions of two senior Ottawa police officers and a lawyer in the force’s legal department, some of whom work directly for the chief of police.

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Those letters detail the disclosure received by Edelson in his capacity as lawyer to then-acting Staff Sgt. Marty Rukavina, who was previously charged by the Special Investigations Unit — along with two other constables — after a tactical training explosion in Kanata that injured two officers and three paramedics in the summer of 2014.

The charges against Rukavina and the other officers were ultimately stayed, but disclosure of evidence provided to Edelson and two other lawyers revealed unexpected information.