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Pierre Duhaime (Image courtesy of Montreal Council on Foreign Relations)Former SNC-Lavalin CEO Pierre Duhaime pleaded guilty Friday to helping a public servant commit breach of trust.
Following his plea, Duhaime, 64, was sentenced to 20 months house arrest and 240 hours of community service.… Continue Reading
Riadh Ben Aissa, from an SNC-Lavalin publicity photoSwitzerland’s federal crime court accepted a plea deal Wednesday between prosecutors and Riadh Ben Aissa, SNC-Lavalin’s former head of construction, and sentenced him to time served.… Continue Reading
Police in Canada have charged a prominent lawyer who formerly headed the tax practice at the Montreal office of Dentons Canada LPP for an alleged plot against a potential witness in the sprawling corruption case involving the SNC-Lavalin Group and several former executives.… Continue Reading
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Montreal filed criminal charges against two former senior SNC-Lavalin executives on Friday.
Stephane Roy, a former vice-president at SNC-Lavalin, was charged with fraud, bribing a foreign public official, and contravening a United Nations economic measures act related to Libya.… Continue Reading
Scandal-plagued SNC-Lavalin said Monday that 32 employees came forward with requests under its corporate amnesty program between June 3 and August 31.
The Montreal-based engineering and construction firm didn’t say how many of the employees who requested amnesty under the program received it.… Continue Reading
Former Montreal mayor, Michael Applebaum (photo courtesy of Wikipedia)That’s a ridiculous headline considering Canada’s perennial top-ten ranking on the corruption perceptions index.
But it’s true.
From our northern neighbor come increasingly regular reports of home-grown sleaze.… Continue Reading
An investigation by Canada’s The Globe and Mail and CBC News has uncovered more dirt on troubled engineering giant, SNC-Lavalin. The investigation uncovered secret accounting codes that had been used for years to indicate bribes for contracts in Asia and Africa.… Continue Reading
Canada’s scandal-plagued SNC-Lavalin has been barred from World Bank-funded projects for ten years because of alleged corruption in Bangladesh and Cambodia.
The World Bank announced the ban Wednesday.
It debarred parent-company SNC-Lavalin Inc.… Continue Reading
The former CEO of SNC-Lavalin pleaded not guilty Monday in Canada to corruption charges.
Pierre Duhaime, 58, was arrested in November last year for fraud and forgery. The allegations were connected to at least two domestic projects.… Continue Reading
An affidavit prepared by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police alleges that a former SNC-Lavalin executive arranged more than $160 million in bribes to the son of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in exchange for engineering contracts.… Continue Reading
North America:
Mexico: Pemex Sues Siemens Claiming Bribery in Old Refinery Project
Petroleos Mexicanos, Mexico’s state-owned oil company, filed a $1.5 billion lawsuit against Siemens AG and South Korea-based SK Engineering & Construction Co., claiming the companies bribed Pemex officials to win and keep refinery construction projects in 1997.… Continue Reading
The former CEO of Montréal-based engineering giant SNC-Lavalin was arrested Wednesday for fraud and forgery in connection with at least two projects.
Pierre Duhaime, 58, left the company earlier this year.… Continue Reading