OTTAWA — The former chairperson of a scandal-plagued clean tech fund, also referred to by Conservatives as the “green slush fund,” was found to have “improperly furthered” the interests of companies she was associated with by failing to recuse herself from the board’s funding decisions, according to the ethics commissioner’s latest report.

Canadian businesswoman Annette Verschuren resigned as president of the board of directors of Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) late last year when it was announced that she was the subject of an ethics investigation.