The stunning allegations are contained in a document known as an “information-to-obtain” or ITO, filed in court in January by police as part of an application to conduct the sweeping raids related to the Project South investigation.

Only a fraction of the ITO can be reported. Most of the document, which spans more than 500 pages, remains under an extensive publication ban that the Star and other media outlets are contesting in court, arguing the information is in the public interest.

On Friday, Superior Court Justice Laura Bird said she would reserve her decision on the ban to a later date. 

“To be clear, the allegations against these defendants, particularly the police officers, are horrendous,” Bird said. “There’s no question about the seriousness of the alleged conduct, and the public should be absolutely outraged if even a percentage of what is alleged is true.”

The ITO reflects what investigators believed about their targets at the time it was filed. None of the allegations have been proven or tested in court.

Singh was an inmate inside the Toronto South Detention Centre last June, when three masked gunmen stormed the home of the jail official in an apparent contracted hit. 

In the days following the botched assassination attempt, the newly released documents show how investigators homed in on Singh as an inmate with a potential motive.

They allege in the documents that Singh “may have directed” the hit on the jail official, using connections both inside and outside of the jail. (The official cannot be identified due to a publication ban).

Project South eventually grew to encompass shocking allegations of corruption inside the Toronto Police Service. To date, the investigation has resulted in the arrests of 28 people, including seven active Toronto officers and one retired constable.

Singh, however, is not among them. He remains in jail awaiting extradition to the U.S. on drug charges. He’s accused of deploying couriers to move massive amounts of cocaine for Wedding, the ex-Canadian Olympian and alleged head of an international cocaine empire. Singh has not been charged in relation to the attempted murder.

Singh’s lawyer, Brian Greenspan, emphasized this fact in an email to the Star. 

“Your proposed standard cautionary note that the allegations in the (ITO) have not ‘been tested in court’ is grossly insufficient and misleading as Mr. Singh has not been charged with any offence months after the execution of the warrants,” Greenspan wrote. “There is nothing to test and no court to test it.”

In the newly released document, investigators allege that Nishwant Dosanjh, a corporal at the Toronto South — and, according to police, Singh’s former romantic partner — photographed the licence plate of the jail official targeted in the attempted murder.

The ITO says she then provided that photo to Singh, and the photo was then disseminated through Singh’s “associates,” and ultimately to veteran Toronto Const. Timothy Barnhardt. The documents allege Barnhardt then illegally searched the licence plate to obtain the jail official’s address, which was then circulated within an alleged criminal network.

Three masked gunmen were arrested outside the jail official’s home in a dramatic takedown by York Regional Police officers on June 20, 2025. 

Barnhardt was arrested in February and remains in custody.

Her lawyer, Kim Schofield, said in a statement that Dosanjh “denies any allegations of criminal or professional misconduct and adamantly maintains her complete innocence.”

Schofield said Dosanjh was identified as a “person of interest” by investigators and she has “co-operated fully” with police, including by giving them “unfettered” access to her seized phone.

“Ms. Dosanjh has not been charged criminally, and there is no indication criminal charges will ever be laid.” 

Police obtained a wiretap on Singh’s jailhouse communications soon after he was identified by the targeted official as one of three inmates who had “known hostility” toward him because of “disciplinary or enforcement actions” within the jail. 

In the ITO, police alleged that Dosanjh arranged her schedule to ensure she worked on Singh’s range as much as possible, spending “extraordinarily long periods” in his company, “often in private.”

“Singh appears to exercise a degree of influence if not power over Dosanjh, which is anomalous given their roles.”

The Ministry of the Solicitor General, which oversees Ontario’s jails, declined to answer all of the Star’s questions for this story.

Investigators also tapped Dosanjh’s phone and installed a recording device in her vehicle.

Dosanjh “expressed animosity” toward the jail official because she believed he was targeting her for “suspected corruption,” investigators alleged in the ITO.

In her statement to the Star, Schofield, Dosanjh’s lawyer, said Dosanjh has been on paid leave since February, “while an investigation is conducted into allegations made by Ms. Dosanjh against another staff member.”

Police also alleged that Singh’s current “intimate partner,” restaurateur Joanne Kopty, acted as an “external facilitator,” including by relaying messages for Singh while he was behind bars. Kopty, like both Singh and Dosanjh, has not been charged. 

“If police had grounds to charge her based on the results of their investigation, they would have,” said Sid Freeman, Kopty’s lawyer, in a statement to the Star.

The ITO also outlines new allegations against Barnhardt, the officer whose alleged corruption is at the centre of the Project South case. 

Barnhardt is facing charges that he routinely ran searches of secure police databases to sell personal information to organized criminals. 

The ITO includes a new allegation that Barnhardt’s searches ended up in the hands of a network of young guns-for-hire. That allegation, one of the few new claims against Barnhardt that are not under publication ban, offers a link between the Project South case and what has become a worrying trend in Toronto-area crime. 

Among those listed in the ITO as a part of the alleged conspiracy to shoot the jail official is Keajean Doman, who is facing more than two dozen charges.

The ITO also alleges that Doman carried out another shooting at a home in Vaughan in September three days after Barnhardt pulled the address from police databases. 

After the Vaughan shooting, Doman was subsequently charged with six other shootings.

The ITO describes Doman communicating with others about, among other things “assembling a team for a job and firearms.” However, the vast majority of those text exchanges remain under publication ban. 

At Friday’s court hearing, the Crown said the case is about organized crime groups who order gun violence, the people they recruit to carry it out, and the “corrupt sources” they go to for information. 

“We will defend these allegations in a courtroom where facts — not headlines — decide the outcome,” one of Barnhardt’s lawyers, Jason Dos Santos, told the Star in an email. 

After York and Toronto’s police chiefs made the stunning announcement in February about the unprecedented allegations of corruption within the Toronto service, the Star and other media requested access to information about the search warrants York investigators had executed as part of Project South.

Earlier this year, the Crown applied to have parts of that document barred from publication, arguing it could impact the charged individuals’ fair trial rights, among other reasons.

Until late Thursday, the Star was preparing to publish a trove of information that was apparently not subject to the Crown’s initial publication ban request. 

However, just hours ahead of the Friday hearing, the Crown filed a corrected request, restricting most of the document from publication for the time being.

The lawyer for the Star and other media was in court Friday arguing the information is in the public interest and should not be subject to a ban.

Superior Court Justice Laura Bird said she would make a decision at a later, undetermined date.

“I don’t think there’s any dispute about the level of the concern the public ought to have in relation to these allegations,” Bird said during the hearing. 

“Quite frankly, they’re shocking and the public does need to know … It’s simply a matter of timing.”

With files from Calvi Leon