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Andrea Janus, CTVNews.ca Published Thursday, March 27, 2014 12:57PM EDT Last Updated Thursday, March 27, 2014 8:23PM EDT

Ontario Provincial Police allege that former Ontario premier Dalton McGuintys chief of staff hired a staffers boyfriend to wipe out government hard drives that contained information about the $1.1 billion gas plant scandal.

According to an OPP search warrant released Thursday, police are investigating David Livingston, McGuintys last chief of staff, on an allegation of breach of trust. The document alleges that Livingston gave the staffers boyfriend unrestricted access to 24 hard drives from the premiers office to wipe them clean.

Police say in the document that they believe that an analysis of those hard drives will afford evidence of breach of trust.

The allegations have not been tested or proven in court.

Premier Kathleen Wynne said that if true, these allegations are very disturbing.

This is not the way a government should operate, this is not the way a premiers office should conduct itself and it is not the way my office operates, she told reporters in a brief statement Thursday afternoon. She did not take questions.

Wynne noted that Livingston never worked for her or her government, and said she has answered any questions about the gas plant scandal truthfully.

She also said that my office and my government will continue to co-operate fully and to provide all information required as the police investigation goes on.

The search warrant alleges that Livingston gave Peter Faist, identified as partner to McGuintys former deputy chief of staff Laura Miller, access to the drives. Police allege Faist was able to access the hard drives because Livingston gave him the special global administrative right assigned to his executive assistant Wendy Wai.

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