Overview
- Investigators executed search warrants in the probe of a 2025 Calgary council reconsideration and seized multiple phones, including devices tied to former mayor Jyoti Gondek, ex‑councillor Sean Chu and developer Nathan Robb.
- Court filings say messages recovered from planning consultant David White’s phone allege offers of campaign donations above legal limits in exchange for securing a reconsideration motion on a Bankview land‑use vote.
- Police told the court on Wednesday they cannot unlock several seized phones with current Cellebrite tools and want courts to let them hold the devices for up to a year while they await possible future forensic capability.
- Defence lawyers pressed investigators for passcodes and criticised reliance on an uncertain future software fix, noting police have not asked Gondek for her phone passcode and there is no timeline for a breakthrough.
- None of the affidavit allegations have been proven in court, no charges have been laid, and Justice Allan Fradsham has reserved his decision with a further hearing scheduled next month.