As former solicitor-general Kash Heed took his position on the political backbench yesterday, the scandal that led him to resign last week dominated discussion around the Legislature Monday.

Heed was putting on the best possible face on the controversy -- an RCMP investigation of illegal election pamphlets distributed in his riding of Vancouver-Fraserview mere days before last summer's election.

He told CTV News that he is confident he did nothing wrong.

"We had nothing to do with it. I had nothing to do with it. The campaign didn't endorse anything of that nature -- we never would -- so I was surprised," he said.

The Chinese-language pamphlets at the centre of the scandal contained several false statements about the NDP's policies -- they were deemed illegal because they didn't contain the required information about who paid for them.

Heed's boss, Premier Gordon Campbell, said he was equally clueless about the pamphlets.

"I don't know what's involved in this. I think everyone should be living with the Election Act," he told CTV News.

The opposition NDP said they don't know where the flyers came from, either.

But they do suspect it was a dirty trick linked to the Liberals.

"Who was involved in that? How far up the campaign chain does this go? Does it go all the way to the top of BC Liberal headquarters?" opposition public safety critic Mike Farnworth told reporters.

One of the few people who knows the truth behind the scandal is Dinesh Khanna.

The flyers were sent from Khanna's Richmond, B.C., mailing service, and CTV News has learned that his son was a volunteer with the campaign.

But Khanna told CTV News Monday that he would not comment on who paid for the pamphlets.

He did say, however, that he had already spoken to RCMP investigators.

Besides the pamphlet, many Chinese voters in the riding also received a voicemail message containing similar false statements about the NDP.

"Happy Mothers' Day," it said in Cantonese. "I'm calling because I'm very worried about members of my family."

The message went on to claim that the NDP would bring in an inheritance tax, and that the party wants to take away hard-earned money from voters.

"Think very carefully," the message ended. "Don't let the NDP exploit you."

But who's behind the voicemail, just like the pamphlets, remains a mystery.

With reports from CTV British Columbia's Stephen Smart and Jim Beatty