OTTAWA—The RCMP investigation into the travel expenses of suspended Senator Pamela Wallin enlisted the help of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Canada Border Services Agency to check out her story, newly released documents show.

The latest batch of documents the RCMP filed in court as part of an ongoing probe into allegations of fraud and breach of trust says Wallin billed the Senate for 21 travel expense claims worth $25,567 for trips that coincided with private business in Toronto and Guelph.

“I believe that Senator Wallin travelled to Toronto to pursue personal and business interests, and later represented to the Senate that these travels were parliamentary related as she sought reimbursement for expenses incurred during these travels,” RCMP Cpl. Rudy Exantus wrote in the document released by the Ottawa courthouse Tuesday.

Exantus also said Wallin “fabricated” meetings to justify the trips.

The former broadcast journalist turned senator from Saskatchewan has not been charged and none of these allegations has been proven in court.

Wallin has repaid $154,191 in expense claims, including interest.

The RCMP is combing through 150 travel expense claims Wallin filed between Jan. 15, 2009 and Sept. 25, 2012, comparing several different versions of her calendar and seemingly interviewing every person she said she met in Toronto while on Senate business to see if her stories match their own recollections and records.

The latest document, filed Feb. 23, sought a court order to have BMO Nesbitt Burns, Inc., where Wallin was a member of a retirement advisory council; Bell Media Inc., where Wallin was an independent director; and the University of Guelph, where she served as chancellor, turn over records related to any expenses she received for those roles.

The RCMP received the requested records last week, according to the documents.

The documents also shed some light on how far the Mounties went in attempting to verify what Wallin and her staff told auditors from Deloitte — the forensic accounting firm the Senate had asked to examine her expenses in 2013 — to justify her trips to Toronto, where she also owns a home.

In a spreadsheet her office provided to Deloitte, Wallin said that on June 9, 2009, she had met in Toronto with Anita Gordon, an advisor to the World Bank in Washington, D.C., to discuss climate change policies.

According to the documents, Gordon later told the RCMP she recalled having dinner in Toronto with Wallin sometime that year but could not remember the exact date.

So, the document shows, the RCMP contacted both the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Canada Border Services Agency to establish whether she had even been in the country at that time.

Those agencies told the RCMP that Gordon’s visit to Toronto lasted from June 1 to June 3, 2009, meaning she had left town before, according to the documents, Wallin had even flown from Ottawa to Toronto on June 8.

The documents show that Wallin had attended the summer convocation at the University of Guelph, where she was chancellor from 2007 to 2011.

The RCMP alleges that was the real reason the senator from Saskatchewan was in Toronto.

“I believe that Senator Wallin deliberately attempted to mislead the Deloitte auditors by asserting that she had these . . . June 9, 2009 meetings in order to justify her travels to Toronto,” Exantus wrote in the document.

Terrence O’Sullivan, the lawyer representing Wallin, said Tuesday that any expenses that should have been charged to third parties — such as the University of Guelph — that were instead billed to the Senate were done so “through administrative error” and have since been repaid.

“When Deloitte reviewed these matters, they said in their report they saw no evidence of fraud or fraudulent intent,” O’Sullivan said.

“There was never any possibility of advantage to Senator Wallin, because the companies would have paid her travel expenses,” said O’Sullivan, who said that Wallin did not double-bill for any of these claims.

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As for the allegations that Wallin had “fabricated” or “misrepresented” some meetings in Toronto, O’Sullivan said it was possible Wallin had sometimes erred in trying to recreate her calendar to provide further details to Deloitte.

“It’s possible some mistakes were made in recreating it,” said O’Sullivan.

Wallin, who became a Conservative senator for Saskatchewan in 2009, was suspended without pay along with Mike Duffy and Patrick Brazeau in November 2013.

Former Liberal Senator Mac Harb had resigned that summer.

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