RCMP search house of sponsorship player Jacques Corriveau

RCMP investigators conducted a search Wednesday at the Montreal-area home of former Liberal organizer Jacques Corriveau, a witness at the inquiry into the federal sponsorship scandal.

Investigators entered Corriveau's house in the South Shore town of St-Bruno-de-Montarville looking for papers and digital data, said spokesman Cpl. Sylvain l'Heureux.

"They’re looking mainly at finding certain documents, computers and data," he told CBC News.

"It's a search conducted in the course of our investigation, but there are no arrests planned for today."

Corriveau was one of several Liberal insiders called to testify at the 2004-2005 Gomery Commission.

The inquiry, led by Justice John Gomery, heard that Corriveau's design firm secured millions of dollars in funding from the now defunct federal sponsorship program.

Among the testimony,former ad executive Jean Brault told the inquiry he paid secret commissions to Corriveau's firm as kickbacks to the Liberal Party of Canada.

Brault testified that, as former president of Groupaction Marketing, he agreed to refund to the Liberal Party 10 of the 12 per cent commission fees he charged on sponsorship contracts.

Corriveau denied those assertions and testified he never diverted money from federal sponsorship contracts nor did he ask people to donate to the federal Liberal party.

Gomery later called Corriveau the "central figure in an elaborate kickback scheme by which he enriched himself personally" and generated funds for his political party.

Corriveau was not among the five men charged with fraud after the inquiry finished its investigation.

Among the quintet was former Montreal ad man Jean Lafleur, who was sentenced last week to 42 months in prison for bilking $1.6 million from the sponsorship program.