The criminal investigation into child pornography turned into a crisis for Germany's new grand coalition government and the Federal Criminal Police Office ("Bundeskriminalamt", BKA) came under growing pressure for its role in the scandal after reports revealed serious failures in the investigation of child porn claims against Edathy. The BKA received documents from Canadian authorities in October 2011 that involved possible child porn claims about Edathy, but it only conveyed documents to the state authorities in Lower Saxony two years after, in late 2013 for further investigation.