The mayor of Montreal has fired the city's comptroller and demanded his former right-hand man at city council resign over details of a spying scheme that now involves police.
But Claude Dauphin, the city council chairman and Lachine borough mayor says he won't step down and has done nothing wrong.
Dauphin was the target of an internal investigation led by city comptroller Pierre Reid, mayor Gérald Tremblay confirmed Monday at a news conference called after days of speculation.
The probe uncovered "troubling facts" including allegations involving Dauphin and a Lachine demolition company, Tremblay said.
Those findings are now in provincial police hands, and Dauphin should step down until an investigation is complete, the mayor urged.
Dauphin was supposed to chair a regularly-scheduled city council meeting Monday afternoon, after Tremblay's news conference.
Pierre Reid, the controversial comptroller who investigated Dauphin has also been removed from his job, but will remain a city employee.
Reid's methodology has come under fire in the past, namely for "spying" on auditor general Jacques Bergeron last year.
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