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  • [79] According to the National Post, SNC-Lavalin employees allegedly were involved in fraud and forgery in relation to a $22.5 million kick-back described as “consulting fees”
    to Arthur Porter[80][Notes 6] on the contract to build the new $1.3 billion hospital at the McGill University Health Centre’s CEO in violation of the Quebec Health Act.

  • [60] According to an August 8, 2013 Financial Post article, Michael Novak who, had been the head of SNC International, had signed “several of the contracts between SNC and
    “unknown commercial consultants to help win contracts” for “work in Africa”.

  • [60] According to an August 8, 2013 Financial Post article, Michael Novak who, had been the head of SNC International, had signed “several of the contracts between SNC and
    “unknown commercial consultants to help win contracts” for “work in Africa”.

  • [51] The company failed to receive a remediation agreement that would have provided a reprieve from criminal charges and now faces a potential SNC-Lavalin’s management teams
    have been investigated in a number of allegations under the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act regarding contracts beginning with the SNC-Lavalin Kerala hydroelectric dam scandal (1995–2008)[50] through to the allegations involving
    the bribing of Libyan officials between 2001 and 2011.

  • According to the source that provided information to CBC News, the investigation found that SNC-Lavalin reimbursed all of those individual donations—a practice forbidden under
    the Canada Elections Act—but Elections Canada reached an agreement with the company to avoid prosecution.

  • According to the source that provided information to CBC News, the investigation found that SNC-Lavalin reimbursed all of those individual donations—a practice forbidden under
    the Canada Elections Act—but Elections Canada reached an agreement with the company to avoid prosecution.

  • [24] Major domestic projects In 1999, the Ontario government signed a $3.1 billion 99-year lease for Ontario Highway 407 with 407 International Inc., a conglomerate of three
    private companies, including SNC-Lavalin.

  • The contract with the New Brunswick government was completed in 2007. .[30] In June 2005, the BC Department of Transport selected SNC-Lavalin for a 30-year contract valued
    at $179 million to “design, build, finance and operate” the William R. Bennett Bridge in Kelowna, British Columbia.

  • [Notes 10] By 2019, SNC-Lavalin, still facing criminal charges in regard to several contracts, began investigating the possibility of a DPA under the newly introduced Remediation
    Agreement Regime, as early as April 2018.

  • [59] SNC-Lavalin affair (2019)[edit] Main article: SNC-Lavalin affair Following a 2017 public consultation process, the Government of Canada moved forward with the establishment
    of a “made-in-Canada version of a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) regime”, called the “Remediation Agreement Regime”,[100] which was introduced in the March budget and came into effect in June 2018.

  • [50][Notes 9] As a result of the original investigation by World Bank investigators who worked with RCMP officers, in September 2013, the World Bank blacklisted SNC-Lavalin
    and its affiliates from bidding on the World Bank’s global projects.

  • According to the Montreal Gazette, Quebec Premier François Legault said that SNC-Lavalin was one of ten publicly-traded companies headquartered in Quebec that the province
    considers to be “strategic” and therefore in need of protection from a takeover that would force the company to leave the province.

  • [50] Part of the allegations were related to SLII common practice of list project consultancy costs (PCC), also known as project commercial cost, as a line item in internal
    budgets documents related to the bidding process.

  • In May 2011, two former SNC-Lavalin International Inc. (SLII) employees Ramesh Shah and Mohammad Ismail met government officials in Bangladesh to discuss a bid for the $50-million
    supervision contract to build the Padma Bridge, a project estimated to be worth US$3 billion.

  • [103] According to the National Post, “If the company is convicted it would be barred from bidding on federal contracts for 10 years, potentially costing it billions in forgone
    revenue.

  • [16] According to a 1986 Maclean’s article by Anthony Wilson-Smith, Lavalin was Canada’s “largest engineering firm, with $625 million in operating revenues in 1985[19] and
    5,700 employees.

  • [48][49] Legal issues SNC-Lavalin’s management teams have been investigated in a number of allegations under the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act regarding contracts
    beginning with the SNC-Lavalin Kerala hydroelectric dam scandal (1995–2008)[50] through to the allegations involving the bribing of Libyan officials between 2001 and 2011.

  • [94] The World Bank had originally offered to fund $1.5 billion of the $3 billion but pulled back following the allegations.

  • In her first substantial public statement on the matter, she testified that she was inappropriately pressured to prevent the Montreal-based company from being prosecuted in
    a bribery case.

  • During this period, over 10,000 Canadian employees left the company, many of them voluntarily.

  • The commissioner has also found that Trudeau acted improperly when using his position of authority over Wilson-Raybould in an effort to have her overrule the director of public
    prosecution’s decision not to negotiate a deal with SNC-Lavalin that would see the company avoid criminal prosecution over charges of corruption and fraud stemming from an RCMP nvestigation.

  • Wilson-Smith also said that they were “among the largest engineering firms in the world”.

  • As part of its plea agreement with the Public Prosecution Service, SLCI was fined $280 million and given a three-year probation order.

  • [63] By the summer of 2013, police alleged that the “unknown commercial consultants” had never existed and that Ben Aissa had “set up shell companies so he could pocket the
    [$56 million] himself”.

  • [63] By the summer of 2013, police alleged that the “unknown commercial consultants” had never existed and that Ben Aissa had “set up shell companies so he could pocket the
    [$56 million] himself”.

  • [72][73][74] In 2012, the RCMP investigated the company on these charges in the Project Assistance investigation and,[75] in 2015, they charged SNC-Lavalin with “fraud and
    corruption”, which the company indicated they would contest in court.

  • [6] According to a CBC News article, a Libyan bribery and fraud scandal involving crimes that took place from 2001-2011 led to charges in “connection with payments of nearly
    $48 million” to Libyan public officials.

  • [6] According to a CBC News article, a Libyan bribery and fraud scandal involving crimes that took place from 2001-2011 led to charges in “connection with payments of nearly
    $48 million” to Libyan public officials.

  • [54] In May 2018, former SNC-Lavalin executive vice president Normand Morin[55] was charged with making illegal donations to Canadian federal political parties, on recommendation
    from the director of public prosecutions, in the Court of Quebec.

  • [54] In May 2018, former SNC-Lavalin executive vice president Normand Morin[55] was charged with making illegal donations to Canadian federal political parties, on recommendation
    from the director of public prosecutions, in the Court of Quebec.

  • [45] In March 2016, it was awarded a $800M EPC management contract for a Middle East gas processing project.

  • [53] Montreal’s Jacques-Cartier bridge (early 2000s)[edit] According to a February 1, 2019, article in La Presse, Quebec prosecutors are cooperating with the Royal Canadian
    Mounted Police (RCMP) in an investigation called Agrafe 2[27] on potential criminal charges against SNC-Lavalin, concerning a contract in the early 2000s to repair Montreal’s Jacques Cartier Bridge.

  • [53] Montreal’s Jacques-Cartier bridge (early 2000s)[edit] According to a February 1, 2019, article in La Presse, Quebec prosecutors are cooperating with the Royal Canadian
    Mounted Police (RCMP) in an investigation called Agrafe 2[27] on potential criminal charges against SNC-Lavalin, concerning a contract in the early 2000s to repair Montreal’s Jacques Cartier Bridge.

  • [59] In the same article, it was reported that the company was also accused of “defrauding Libyan organizations of an estimated $130 million”.

  • [59] In the same article, it was reported that the company was also accused of “defrauding Libyan organizations of an estimated $130 million”.

  • [42] In 2007, the firm won the $4.6-billion Ambatovy mine engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) management contract, the largest capital project in Madagascar’s
    history.

  • In June 2011, SNC-Lavalin purchased the commercial reactor division of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) from the Government of Canada for CA$15 million.

  • [84] The CBC called it the biggest fraud investigation in Canadian history.

  • According to its 2017 annual report, its four key service sectors are infrastructure, mining and metallurgy, oil and gas, and power; each sector offers services that includes
    design, studies, consultancy, financing, asset management, engineering, construction, procurement and operations and maintenance.

  • [58] Libya (2011)[edit] A 2012 CBC News report, said that the first reports of murky affairs surfaced against the company in 2010 in relation to contracts in Libya.

  • [58] Libya (2011)[edit] A 2012 CBC News report, said that the first reports of murky affairs surfaced against the company in 2010 in relation to contracts in Libya.

  • “[95] SaskPower serious design flaws (2015)[edit] In 2015, internal documents from SaskPower (the crown corporation that is the principal electric utility in Saskatchewan,
    Canada), revealed that there were “serious design issues” in the carbon capture and storage system at its coal-fired Boundary Dam Power Station, resulting in regular breakdowns and maintenance problems that caused the unit to be operational
    only 40% of the time.

  • Payments of personal benefits totalling over $73.5 million were also made through the representative companies to Ben Aissa and Sami Bebawi, a former vice-president of SLCI.

  • [21] On June 23, 2014, SNC-Lavalin acquired Irish engineering and construction business Kentz for approximately CA$2.1 billion (US$1.95 billion).

  • Prior to the launch of the investigation, there had been months-long media speculation about the company’s work in Libya and its ties to the Muammar Gaddafi family.

  • [92] Padma Bridge (since 2011)[edit] An investigation into an alleged graft related to 2011 bids for the construction of the 6.51 kilometre (four-mile) USD$3 billion road—rail
    bridge crossing the Padma River in Bangladesh,[93] resulted in the former SNC-Lavalin employees being cleared of all charges by a Canadian court.

  • [51] SNC-Lavalin Kerala hydroelectric dam scandal (1995–2008)[edit] Main article: SNC-Lavalin Kerala hydroelectric scandal SNC-Lavalin won a large infrastructure contract
    to renovate and modernize hydroelectric power stations with the Indian government in 1995 which resulted in an alleged net loss to the Indian exchequer of 3745.0 million rupees,[42][52] but led to no charges against the firm.

  • [51] SNC-Lavalin Kerala hydroelectric dam scandal (1995–2008)[edit] Main article: SNC-Lavalin Kerala hydroelectric scandal SNC-Lavalin won a large infrastructure contract
    to renovate and modernize hydroelectric power stations with the Indian government in 1995 which resulted in an alleged net loss to the Indian exchequer of 3745.0 million rupees,[42][52] but led to no charges against the firm.

  • [7] History SNC (1911–1991)[edit] In 1911 Swiss-born Arthur Surveyer established a consulting engineering office, Arthur Surveyer & Cie., in Montréal after completing studies
    in Belgium and at the Polytechnique Montréal and working for several years with public works.

  • The firm was awarded the 2015 Canadian Consulting Engineering Awards for its work in structural and civil engineering for the Halifax Central Library project in which they
    created a “civic landmark and centrepiece for the Capital District”.

  • [68][69][70][71][Notes 5] By February 2012, SNC investors had found out that audited financial statements had been delayed to accommodate an internal review relating to SNC’s
    operations.

  • [51] In 2011, the RCMP began an investigation called Project Assistance which was triggered by a tip from Swiss authorities.

  • [51] In 2011, the RCMP began an investigation called Project Assistance which was triggered by a tip from Swiss authorities.

  • [13][14][15][12]: 466  The firm’s first international contract was awarded in 1963, to design and build the 780 MW Idukki power station in Kerala State, India.

  • The report analyses SNC-Lavalin’s interests and finds that the lobbying effort advanced private interests of the company, rather than public interests.

  • [104] On February 8, 2019, The Globe and Mail reported that sources close to the government said that the Prime Minister’s Office allegedly had attempted to influence Jody
    Wilson-Raybould’s decision concerning SNC-Lavalin’s request for a DPA, while she was Minister of Justice and Attorney General.

  • [106] Under pressure from the Conservative Party of Canada and the New Democratic Party (NDP), on February 11, 2019, the conflict of interest and ethics commissioner launched
    an inquiry into allegations of political interference and a possible violation of the Conflict of Interest Act in the SNC-Lavalin case.

  • [81][82][83] Porter was arrested in Panama on fraud charges on May 27, 2013, which alleged that he took part in the kick-back scheme.

  • Bourne sat on SNC-Lavalin’s board of directors beginning in 2009, before the “allegations of fraud and corruption in Libya”[114] were made.

  • Porter resigned from the post on December 5, 2011 in light of substantial public pressure.

  • This included using Transparency International’s corruption rankings as a guideline in deciding which countries with which SNC-Lavalin would do business.

  • A government investigation resulted in the expulsion of several Indian government officials.

  • A government investigation resulted in the expulsion of several Indian government officials.

  • [110] Company responses[edit] SNC-Lavalin CEO Pierre Duhaime resigned in March 2012 and was arrested by Quebec’s anti-corruption squad on charges including fraud on November
    28, 2012.

  • [26][Notes 3][27] Illegal reimbursement of political donations (2004–2011)[edit] In 2016, commissioner of Canada elections was probing political party donations made by SNC-Lavalin
    employees.

  • [26][Notes 3][27] Illegal reimbursement of political donations (2004–2011)[edit] In 2016, commissioner of Canada elections was probing political party donations made by SNC-Lavalin
    employees.

 

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