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Police also allege that Faist used WhiteCanyon software on the premier’s office computers. The software is commonly used by the U.S. military to wipe all data while leaving the operating system intact.

Some staff recalled in police interviews that they were introduced to Faist as the boyfriend of Livingston’s deputy chief Laura Miller, who has since been hired as the executive director of the BC Liberals.

The filings reveal that Faist’s work was “sole-sourced” by his girlfriend when she was executive director of the Ontario Liberal Party, from 2010-11.

There was no written contract between Faist’s company, NetCon1, and the Ontario Liberal Party.

Simon Tunstall, the executive director of the party, told detectives that the party office sole-sources work and does not use the request for proposal process, saying, “We’re not a government so we don’t have any obligations, we have no legal obligation to do RFPs or anything like that,” according to the affidavit filed by police.

The police are seeking visitor logs from the Legislative Assembly recording the name Faist between June 1, 2010, and March 30, 2014.

Invoices reviewed by police show that Faist’s company received $57,036.08 from the Ontario Liberal Party and $167,072.28 from the Liberal Caucus Service Bureau for services across the four-year period in question.

The Ontario Liberal Party stopped using Faist’s services in March, shortly after the last police filings were made public.