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Federal prosecutors and the RCMP should provide at least some details on why charges were stayed in B.C.’s biggest money laundering case, a criminology expert said Thursday.

“RCMP secrecy is just astonishing to my mind. I understand the need to protect the integrity of these investigations … but you don’t go into a hole in the ground and say, ‘Sorry, I am not going to talk to you at all’,” said Simon Fraser University criminology professor Rob Gordon.

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When information is completely shut down then questions get raised, said Gordon.

He acknowledged there are good reasons to hold some information back but there should be a way to provide some details without having a negative effect on any continuing investigation.

Gordon also noted there was little doubt the federal prosecutor and RCMP know why charges have been stayed, despite a pledge by the RCMP to launch an internal full-scale review “to understand its activities which contributed to this stay.”