Montreal man claims RCMP offered him $1 million to help solve murder of Air India witness

A Montreal man charged in a cocaine conspiracy claims the RCMP offered him $1 million to help solve the 1998 murder of a B.C. newspaper publisher who was killed after agreeing to testify in the Air India bombing case.
Jean Gaetan Gingras was captured on a wiretap telling an undercover Mountie that police met with him and his lawyer at a Montreal law office to make the offer after Tara Singh Hayer was assassinated.
A recording of the conversation was played for B.C. Supreme Court Justice Carol Ross on Tuesday in Vancouver at the conspiracy trial of Gingras and co-accused Bruno Diquinzio.
"They offered me $1 million in the lawyer's office," he said.
Gingras stressed to the operator, who cannot be identified because of a publication ban, that he told the police nothing and that they had nothing on him in connection with a 1986 attempted bombing at Hayer's newspaper office.
But he admitted to the cop that he arranged for the bomb to be placed outside Hayer's Surrey, B.C., office after being approached by a Sikh friend in Montreal.
"The guy in Montreal brought somebody from Vancouver," Gingras told the operator.
He said he sent his team out here to do the job, which was only to "send a message" to Hayer and not to kill him.
Gingras, 68, was arrested in Vancouver, minutes after the May 31, 2008, conversation about Hayer and charged with conspiracy to traffic cocaine and money laundering.
26/01/12 Kim Bolan/Vancouver Sun/The Gazette

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