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OTTAWA — An Elections Canada investigator alleges he had reason to believe that Michael Sona admitted he was involved in misleading robocalls in the 2011 federal election and also alleges that the former Conservative Party campaign worker had hinted he didn’t act alone.

Sona is the only person charged over the “Pierre Poutine” calls sent out to more than 7,000 voters in Guelph, Ont., on election day.

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These new but unproven allegations against Sona are detailed in a sworn statement from Elections Canada investigator Allan Mathews, which came to light Monday only after a judge issued a publication ban restricting the reporting of some of the statement’s details.

The publication ban, ordered by Judge Celynne Dorval, was issued at the request of Sona’s lawyer and with agreement of the Crown prosecutor.

The order forbids the reporting of certain paragraphs of a document called an Information To Obtain (ITO), sworn by Mathews on May 3, 2013, that allowed him to get a court order for records from a credit company related to a credit card used to pay for the robocalls. The allegations by Mathews have not been proven in court.