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Former Liberal MP Raj Grewal must divulge to the federal ethics commissioner – and the public – who lent him millions of dollars to feed a rampant gambling habit, opposition critics said Tuesday.

Those kind of huge debts raise a “massive, massive red flag” for an elected official, said New Democrat Charlie Angus, the party’s ethics point person. Suggesting the matter is closed because the money has been repaid is not good enough, both he and Conservative ethics critic Peter Kent argued.

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“Suddenly he says ‘The money’s all paid off, I’m golden, I’m ready to go back to work.’ How does that happen?” Angus said in an interview. “We need to know: Did he borrow all this money from a rich uncle, or were there strings attached? Because that could seriously undermine his work as a parliamentarian.”

Kent said Grewal must “absolutely” reveal details of the payments he received.

“If he is in fact innocent of everything, as he claims, and if in fact the money was borrowed only from relatives and has been repaid legitimately – not from questionable sources – then I think these questions need to be asked and answered,” he said.