The immigration forms for Mr. Gadhafi ... were recovered by the RCMP during raids related to its corruption investigation against SNC.
It was the crown jewel of corporate Canada. A rock solid construction and engineering firm whose successful business battles put a national stamp on bridges, hospitals, hydro dams and nuclear facilities around the world.But SNC-Lavalin’s reputation and confidence have been rattled by bribery and corruption scandals that have left former executives in handcuffs as their alleged activities are unravelled in the courts. The settings for these cloak-and-calculator accounting mysteries are as diverse as Bangladesh, pre-revolution Libya, Cambodia, Algeria and Montreal City Hall, just a short walk from the company’s base.The fallout has been catastrophic for SNC-Lavalin’s global brand and its business operations.
SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. is offering “amnesty” to employees who report potential corruption and anti-competition matters, in which they may have direct or indirect knowledge, in order to help the company.The construction and engineering firm says it will not make claims for damages or unilaterally terminate employees who voluntarily, truthfully and fully report violations of its Code of Ethics and Business Conduct between June 3 and Aug. 31.The offer does not extend to executives in the company’s Office of the President or Management Committee groups, or anyone who directly profited from an ethical violation.
Canadian engineering giant SNC-Lavalin is accusing Ontario consultant Cynthia Vanier and a former company executive of using millions in company funds to bankroll an illegal plot to smuggle members of the Gadhafi family out of Libya in 2011.The company filed a motion Monday in Quebec claiming former executive vice-president Riadh Ben Aissa hired Vanier in June 2011 as part of a clandestine plot, paying her in excess of $1.8 million to arrange the move of Saadi Gadhafi and his family out of Libya — contrary to UN asset freezes and travel bans.
Canadian companies make up 119 of the more than 250 entries from around the world on the list, marking a seven-year high for the country. The United States placed second on the list with 46 companies, and Indonesia placed third with 43, the World Bank said on Sunday.
"Canadian companies make up 119 of the more than 250 entries from around the world on the list, marking a seven-year high for the country"
Even if you subtract SNC-Lavalin's 58 appearances as a Canadian subsidiary and 14 times as a US one, we're still #1
SNC-Lavalin says 32 employees admitted ethical violations under the company’s three-month amnesty program which ended Aug. 31.The engineering and construction company says no new information of a material nature was revealed, but it confirmed its assessment of corruption risk.
Canada won a distinction last month that most of us would rather we had lost: We had the most companies on a list of firms banned from doing business with the World Bank over corruption.In a sense, that was something of a statistical lie. All but a few of the Canadian companies banned from doing World Bank business were actually subsidiaries of one company: SNC-Lavalin, the engineering giant based out of Montreal that has now pretty much become a national (and international) embarrassment.The allegations that have emerged against SNC-Lavalin over the past few years are almost too many to list in this article, and stray at times into the almost fantastical.
