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Developer-turned-whistle blower Jack Saran sat in front of reporters again Friday — four years after the sentencing of a former Surrey planner he fingered and found little satisfaction at finally being proven right.

The 68-year-old large-scale builder, who immigrated from India in 1968, always insisted the wrongdoing by Akonyu Akolo was more extensive than one attempted bribe in 2010 and went back several years.

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“I have never wavered in my belief that there was much more to this issue than what the City of Surrey was publicly acknowledging,” he explained.

“I have spent much time and resources seeking answers to my questions, to the point that I have felt it necessary to hire legal counsel to assist in getting to the bottom of things. It should not have come to this.”

But the city, police and prosecutors maintained the $30,000 Akolo solicited from Saran was a one-off and, at the 2014 trial, Akolo was slapped on the wrist with 15-months house arrest for one count of breach of trust because the judge believed it was out of character.