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“It’s quite outrageous what he engaged in,” Arbogast told the court. “To go through all of the misconduct would take days.”

Arrested and jailed in 2011, Moazami was sentenced in 2015 to 48 years in prison for more than two dozen counts of pimping and sexual interference with victims ranging in age from 14 to 19 — a term reduced by the judge to 23 years to give the young man some hope.

Moazami, who was not in court on Monday, later received an additional three years after he was convicted of attempting in 2012 to bribe a Crown witness, one of the young women.

He has served seven of the nearly 27 years.

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Arbogast told the court the indications of institutional knowledge of Fisher’s misconduct needed to be more fully explored to determine what was done about it — if anything.

He also alleged Fisher had sex with several and perhaps most of the 11 complainants and key witnesses in the Moazami case.

Arbogast said Fisher was reputed to regularly give some of them small sums of cash at various times, which added up to a significant amount — more than a police officer’s salary would support.

His central role in the investigation gave him control and contact with key witnesses, and he counselled them to lie, cheat and misdirect police, Arbogast alleged at the court hearing.

Arbogast also alleged before Justice David Frankel that Fisher helped recruit prostitutes for one of the women who acted as a madam, was involved in her business and sold information from police databases to her and others concerned about law enforcement when crossing the border.