Some potentially relevant internal government e-mails in the BC Rail corruption case that were said to have been erased have been recovered, government lawyer George Copley told B.C. Supreme Court yesterday.
The case of the missing documents made headlines when it was disclosed that four years of B.C. cabinet e-mails between 2001 and 2005 might have been wiped out, much to the anguish of defence lawyers who contend their clients, charged with fraud and breach of trust in connection with the sale of BC Rail, were acting on government instructions.
But Mr. Copley said a search of backup tapes from e-mail servers has turned up 97 that could be relevant to current proceedings. In addition, 48,000 more documents have also been recovered. However, they have not yet been analyzed for relevancy, he said.
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Source: theglobeandmail.com
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