The total amount of money lost in the sponsorship scandal now appears to be $355 million -- $100 million more than was originally thought.
"If you didn't like the sponsorship program to begin with, you've now got about a hundred million more reasons to not like it," CTV's Jed Kahane said Tuesday.
The new figure of $355 million is from the forensic accounting firm, Kroll Lindquist Avey, which was hired by the Gomery commission to examine sponsorship spending between 1994 and 2004.
"They have in the past looked for money from such people as Saddam Hussein, the Marcos family, Manuel Noriega -- that sort of thing," Kahane told CTV Newsnet from Montreal.
"They're used to looking far and wide for money."
The sponsorship inquiry -- headed up by judge John Gomery -- was ordered last year, after a report by federal Auditor General Sheila Fraser found spending irregularities in the now-defunct sponsorship program between 1997 and 2003.
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