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The former chief executive officer of the beleaguered Global Transportation Hub was handed a severance package worth $242,326 when he was fired earlier this year, after the government decided to sell the facility.

Bryan Richards, who was appointed to the post in 2013 and took home $253,716 in 2017-18, was paid out benefit entitlements, six months’ salary and one month’s salary for each year worked after his first year of employment.

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In an interview on Wednesday, Don Morgan, Minister Responsible for the GTH, declined to comment on the circumstances of Richards’ firing but acknowledged there was “no cause” and it came amid “a change of direction.”

Reached by phone on Wednesday, Richards declined to comment.

The facility outside Regina has been under intense scrutiny since it emerged that two businessmen with ties to the governing Saskatchewan Party collectively made $11 million on land sales to the so-called inland port.