A political scandal has rocked Bassa after the country's ambassador to Canada was revealed to have attended a number of suspicious parties in 2009-2011. The scandal, with echoes of Toronto's Rob Ford scandal as well as one that ensnared Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf in 2010, alleges that the ambassador, a candidate in upcoming parliamentary elections, engaged in a number of secret "hookers and blow" parties with Eastern European and Somali gangsters in various parts of Ontario. Furthermore, a prosecutor has alleged that at least some of the parties were funded by pirate money, as wire transfers have been found to the party hosts that originated in the notoriously pirate-heavy Puntland region: