Toronto Police Constable Daniel J. Costa, 29, is to appear in Newmarket Ontario Court of Justice for a bail hearing today after being charged with perjury. Costa is accused of misleading a York Region Police homicide investigation into the gangland-style murder of multi-millionaire jeweller Alexander Kucovic, 37, in July 2011.

Kucovic was the victim of what is widely seen to have been a targeted killing outside his Concord home. York Region police investigating the possible involvement of Constable Costa's younger brother Michael Costa allege that the 23 Division Constable made “a false statement under oath, namely stating repeatedly to investigators he had no knowledge of the whereabouts of his brother a person of interest in the homicide investigation, knowing the statement to be false …”
Michael Costa is believed to have left Canada for southern Italy. Constable Costa has been suspended with pay.