Ontario ethics watchdog closes Greenbelt-related inquiry

Allison Jones · The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 06, 2025 12:57 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

Ontario's integrity commissioner has closed a Greenbelt-related probe into erstwhile furniture curate Kaleed Rasheed.

NDP Leader Marit Stiles had asked the commissioner successful October 2023 to analyse a 2020 travel to Las Vegas that included Rasheed, Doug Ford's then-principal caput Amin Massoudi, and developer Shakir Rehmatullah, who stood to payment from Ford's now-reversed program to region onshore from the Greenbelt for housing.

Rasheed, Massoudi and Jae Truesdell — who was successful the backstage assemblage astatine the clip but served arsenic Ford's manager of lodging argumentation starting successful January 2022 — initially told the integrity commissioner they "briefly" encountered Rehmatullah connected a travel to Las Vegas successful 2019.

They aboriginal said the travel occurred successful 2020 aft reports from The Trillium and CTV called Rasheed's timeline into question, and Rasheed has said it was an honorable mistake.

A spokesperson for Integrity Commissioner Cathryn Motherwell says the bureau is required to suspend immoderate enquiry erstwhile an predetermination is called.

A probe tin resume if the archetypal requester asks for a restart wrong 30 days aft an election, but the spokesperson says that did not happen.