Poilievre asks CRA to audit Trudeau Foundation over donations connected to foreign governments

Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation has now returned controversial $140,000 Beijing-linked donation

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has written to the Canada Revenue Agency asking it to “launch a fulsome audit” of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation with a focus on donations the charity received from foreign governments.

The letter comes as sources with knowledge of the situation tell Radio-Canada a controversial $140,000 donation given to the charity by two men with links to the Chinese government has been returned.

In the letter, Poilievre asks the CRA to perform the audit “with a particular focus on the donation that has been subject to public reporting, as well as any other financial transactions that may have a connection to foreign governments or their associates.”

The request comes after the Globe and Mail reported last month that Zhang Bin and Niu Gensheng — businessmen later identified by the newspaper as linked to the Chinese government — pledged in 2016 to donate $200,000 to the foundation.

The foundation later said it only received $140,000 of the promised amount, in the form of two $70,000 payments that came in the name of a corporation.

full story at https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservatives-cra-audit-trudeau-foundation-1.6811367

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