Briefly: Thomas Herdman of Vancouver has spent the last 38 months in a jail near Paris without trial.
Herdman distributed Sky Global’s modified smartphones, which worked on an encrypted network called Sky ECC. Police from Belgium, France and Netherlands cracked the company’s French server. Authorities in the U.S. charged Herdman and Sky Global CEO Jean-Francois Eap with racketeering conspiracy and conspiracy to distribute controlled substances in March 2021.
Next: Herdman denies wrongdoing. His lawyer, Paul Sin-Chan, is appealing a judge’s denial of bail for Herdman. He had proposed house arrest, electronic monitoring and a 250,000-euro bail. READ MORE BELOW.
Briefly: Vancouver city hall’s integrity commissioner released two reports Aug. 2, ahead of a meeting where Mayor Ken Sim’s party could freeze her investigations.
Lisa Southern dismissed a complaint from Sim’s top two aides against two park board commissioners no longer with Sim’s ABC party. One of the park board officials complained that Sim used those aides to meddle in the park board.
Next: ABC decided to call a third-party review into Southern’s office and may go one step further at a special Aug. 6 meeting. READ MORE BELOW
