There's been no resolution for the issue of police wiretaps in the trial involving the Faubourg Contrecoeur alleged land fraud transaction so proceedings have been delayed until Friday.
The defence has until Thursday to prepare a motion demanding the details of the use of police wiretaps used to record some conversations between defence lawyers and the accused. The crown on Friday will tell the court where they stand on that.
Yesterday the defence said they found out that police wiretapped certain conversations with their clients in this case for use in other investigations.
Frank Zampino, the former Montreal executive committee chairman and five others are charged with fraud, conspiracy and breach of trust.
The crown was given a day to provide the defence with details about the procedure but the defence said it was incomplete and unsatisfactory. Defence lawyers wanted more information such as who was being monitored and how long the conversations were.
The crown told the court that 25 conversations were recorded and 11 involved this trial but that the rest was not relevant and would be used as evidence.
The defence said that wasn't good enough because it has no guarantees the information wasn't sealed or that investigators didn't access it.
Zampino's lawyer said lawyer-client privilege is the issue here and wants to know how these conversations end up in the hands of a judge in another investigation.
The charges stem from the sale of the land to Construction Frank Catania & Associés at a cost of $4.4-million when it was assessed at $31-million.