Federal funds that were supposed to be transferred to a Manitoba First Nation were diverted to an outside bank account in an apparent hack, the community’s chief revealed Thursday.

Chief Dennis Pashe said an investigation is underway to find out what happened when a $200,000 transfer from Indigenous Services Canada was not deposited into Dakota Tipi First Nation’s account.

“We were wondering where our operating funds were.”

“The perpetrators… were able to divert money that was supposed to go to our community from an ISC account,” Pashe said. “We were wondering where our operating funds were. We put pressure on ISC to find out where the money was.”

Pashe said he did not yet have full details of what happened. He said emails were “falsified,” and officials were impersonated when the mone

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