MONTREAL — A former SNC-Lavalin executive has been found guilty of paying off foreign officials and pocketing millions as he worked to secure contracts for the Canadian engineering company in Libya. A jury found Sami Bebawi, 73, guilty Sunday of all five charges he faced, including fraud, corruption of foreign officials and laundering proceeds of crime. THE CANADIAN PRESS Former SNC-Lavalin vice-president Sami Bebawi leaves a courtroom in Montreal on Feb. 15, 2019. The company is also accused of fraud and corruption for allegedly defrauding various Libyan organizations of roughly $130 million. Political affair It was that case that thrust the Montreal company into the centre of a political controversy this year involving the governing Liberals.

Source: Huffington Post December 15, 2019 16:18 UTC