OTTAWA — A judge rejected a request by two federal officials to block an internal investigation into allegations they committed “serious misconduct” relating to government contracting and the ArriveCan app.

In a ruling dated Tuesday, Federal Court Justice Russel W. Zinn said applicants Antonio Utano and Cameron Macdonald, public service executives who previously worked at Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) while ArriveCan was under development, turned to the court prematurely when they asked it to halt a government probe into allegations of “serious misconduct” raised by a Montreal-based company, Botler AI.