An RCMP investigation into the financial records and mail use of men accused of building up an anti-government militia suggests they received and spent almost half a million dollars over a period of two and a half years, using much of it to buy weapons and military equipment.

There's also a question of where the money came from, with the suggestion of third-party financial involvement.

In July, the RCMP arrested four Quebec men, all with military ties, for allegedly planning an ideologically motivated violent plot "intending to forcibly take possession of land in the Quebec City area."

Alongside weapons charges, three of them — Marc-Aurèle Chabot, 24, Simon Angers-Audet, 24, and Raphaël Lagacé, 25 — have been charged with the serious offence of facilitating a terrorist activity.

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