Canada's parliament Thursday decided to launch a probe into allegations against former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, following the government's announcement to make a public inquiry last week.
The ethics committee of the House of Commons will ask both Mulroney and German-Canadian businessman Karlheinz Schreiber, who claimed improper dealings between himself and Mulroney, to testify, the committee said.
The committee will review Schreiber's allegations that he paid Mulroney 300,000 Canadian dollars (about 303,000 U.S. dollars) in cash to enlist his help in doing businesses. They finalized the deal two days before Mulroney left office as prime minister in 1993, Schreiber alleged.
Schreiber also alleged that a Mulroney adviser asked Schreiber to transfer money in connection with Air Canada's 1988 purchase of Airbus planes to a Mulroney lawyer based in Switzerland.
None of the allegations against Mulroney has been proven in court but they spurred Prime Minister Stephen Harper to call a public inquiry into the affair.
Schreiber faces extradition to Germany on Dec. 1. to face fraud charges. On Thursday, he filed for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court to reconsider the extradition order.
Source:Xinhua
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