JENSEN LA VENDE

Se­nior Re­porter

Four months af­ter he was first ar­rest­ed by of­fi­cers of the Spe­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tion Unit, Christo­pher "Chris Must List" Hugh­es was de­tained again—this time for al­le­ga­tions that he and/or his elec­tron­ic de­vices may have been used for mon­ey laun­der­ing.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice sources, Hugh­es was held at the Diego Mar­tin home of at­tor­ney Criston WIlliams, where his bail con­di­tions man­dat­ed he stay while in the coun­try. Po­lice said his Ap­ple lap­top, iPhone, portable hard dri­ve, Go­Pro cam­era and oth­er de­vices were seized by po­lice ear­li­er to­day as part of an on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to mon­ey laun­der­ing.

The 45-year-old is cur­rent­ly charged with mak­ing a sedi­tious pub­li­ca­tion and has plead­ed not guilty to the of­fence, which goes to tri­al in Jan­u­ary.  If found guilty, Hugh­es—who is out on $100,000 bail—faces a $3,000 fine or two years im­pris­on­ment.

Hugh­es was first held in May and his elec­tron­ic de­vices were seized then. Af­ter he was charged, his then-at­tor­ney Pamela El­der SC re­quest­ed that his de­vices be re­turned and for the po­lice to keep the mem­o­ry cards.

It is un­clear if this was done.

Hugh­es is cur­rent­ly be­ing ques­tioned by of­fi­cers of the SIU.

Days be­fore his last court ap­pear­ance, Hugh­es said he fired his at­tor­neys El­der and Rus­sell Warn­er over a near­ly $US50,000 in­voice for two ap­pear­ances.

At his last court ap­pear­ance, Warn­er said both El­der and him­self with­drew from rep­re­sent­ing him. For­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan, who was rep­re­sent­ing Hugh­es pro bono on be­half of the Cana­di­an Em­bassy, al­so with­drew his rep­re­sen­ta­tion.