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Quebec’s anti-corruption squad wiretapped, filmed and tailed former municipal officials and other targets as part of its ongoing investigation into Montreal’s scuttled $355.8-million water-management contract as recently as last summer, a batch of newly-released search warrants reveal.

One of the people observed in the police surveillance that was carried out between June and August 2015 is a travel agent who claims in a conversation with former municipal party fundraiser Bernard Trépanier that was recorded by police that she “still has clients from the city of Montreal,” says an affidavit that was presented by the Unité permanente anticorruption, or UPAC, last August to obtain a warrant to search the premises of a travel agency in St-Léonard.

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Trépanier, the affidavit states, tells the travel agent, Maria Cappa, what to say to the police if she’s questioned while investigators listen in through a bug in Cappa’s car.