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OTTAWA — The RCMP is investigating the finances of a tiny B.C. First Nation band that were used to enrich members of a single family to the tune of $4.2 million over three-and-a-half years, according to a forensic audit obtained this week by Postmedia News.

The Shuswap First Nation’s transfers to the family, as well as additional funding for trips to Las Vegas and Cuba, ended in November of 2014 when the family was voted out of office following Postmedia’s disclosure of the family’s lavish salaries.

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The federal government-funded Ernst & Young audit was provided in July to members of the band, which has an on-reserve population of about 100 on the outskirts of Invermere near the B.C.-Alberta border.

The 13-page report was also handed over to the Mounties.

“It is under RCMP investigation,” Chief Barbara Cote and her two councillors said in a recent written statement to band members.

Despite that ongoing police probe, the family member who received the largest portion of the $4.2 million during the 2011 to 2014 period is running in next month’s election to sit on council and potentially become Shuswap chief.