Mayor of Terrebonne resigns amid corruption allegations

Terrebonne Mayor Jean-Marc Robitaille has not attended a city council meeting since UPAC raided city hall in July 2016

The Mayor of Terrebonne has resigned.

Jean-Marc Robitaille has missed three city council meetings in a row, and would have been forced to step down if he did not attend November's council meeting.

He has officially been on sick leave since July, when the province's anti-corruption squad began investigating him.

During the Charbonneau Commission in 2014, Robitaille admitted lying about his ties to Tony Accurso, a construction magnate who is facing multiple charges of fraud and corruption.

In July UPAC raided Terrebonne City Hall, as well as the homes of councillor Marie-Claude Lamarche and her husband Daniel Belec -- Robitaille's chief of staff.

UPAC is also investigating Councillor Michel Morin, and last month the city's General Manager, Luc Papillon, was suspended.

Court affadavits suggest Robitaille and Papillon were accepting bribes to award city contracts.

However nobody has been arrested, and nobody has been charged with committing any crime.