HALIFAX – A senior bureaucrat in Nova Scotia’s Finance Department has told the fraud trial of a politician that rules around expense claims lacked clarity.
Byron Rafuse, the province’s associate deputy minister of finance, is testifying today at the spending scandal trial of Independent member Trevor Zinck.
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Rafuse told the Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Halifax he was asked to conduct a review in 2010 of how member expense claims were processed.
He says there were weaknesses and a lack of clarity on what was an allowable expense.
Zinck is charged with theft over $5,000, fraud over $5,000 and breach of trust.
Three other politicians were charged in the scandal, all of whom have already been sentenced after pleading guilty.
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