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The RCMP’s Serious and Organized Crime Branch is investigating allegations Alberta’s auditor general levelled against former premier Alison Redford and her administration last summer, a source close to the police investigation confirmed Thursday.

The August report from Auditor General Merwan Saher found Redford and her office used taxpayer-funded planes “inappropriately” and for “personal and partisan purposes.”

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Saher said government staff did not question these and other travel expenses because Redford’s office exuded an “aura of power.”

“What I can confirm is that we started an investigation toward mid-August, and that’s all I can really tell you. It is under investigation,” the source said.

“As a result of the auditor general’s report, we were asked to look into it, into those expenses that were listed in the in auditor general’s report. We’re doing an investigation now.”