By Allan Dowd
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney had inappropriate business dealings with German-Canadian arms dealer Karlheinz Schreiber that included secret cash payments, a inquiry reported on Monday.
The two men tried to hide their business relationship by having Schreiber pay Mulroney in cash, leaving no paper trail, according to the inquiry, which was launched by the Conservative federal government in 2007.
Mulroney told the inquiry last year there was nothing illegal about the secret cash payments.
"I find, applying Mr. Mulroney's own test, that his business dealings with Mr. Schreiber were not appropriate," Inquiry Commissioner Jeffrey Oliphant, a former judge, said in his report.
