Posted on 04/15/2019 9:56:30 AM PDT by jerod
There's no question that millions of dollars in bribes were paid to the Gadhafi regime in Libya to win lucrative contracts for SNC-Lavalin.
The former head of the company's global construction arm admitted to bribery, corruption and money laundering in 2014. He pleaded guilty in a Swiss court.
But the Quebec-based engineering firm has long insisted that Riadh Ben Aïssa was acting alone and in secret.
"The Libyan bribes were disguised by Riadh Ben Aïssa as part of normal project costs," former board chair Gwyn Morgan told CBC News in a recent email. "There was simply no means for board members to detect them."
Ben Aïssa has a very different story to tell. He is back in Canada after having spent more than two years in prison in Switzerland.
He has turned on his former executives and board of directors and has been co-operating with police and prosecutors.
If called to testify at an SNC-Lavalin trial, he could expose who else in the senior ranks may have known about $47.7 million in bribes and $130 million in fraud tied to projects in Libya — crimes the RCMP alleges were committed by the company between 2001 and 2011.
SNC-Lavalin has been lobbying hard behind the scenes to secure what's called a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) to avoid going to trial. The company, as well as its supporters in government, argue thousands of jobs are at risk if it is convicted and barred from bidding on federal contracts....
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They've been lobbying hard behind the scenes? And bribing politicians and government officials in Canada... Just like they did in Libya... But the CBC will never investigate those crimes, because they involved their dear leader... Just not ready Trudeau.
Check Hillary s bank account....”we came, we saw, he died”....cackle, cackle, cackle.
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So, during the Libyan civil war, these guys manage to come back with bags of money from Qadaffi?
Nope.
Ain’t buying it.
When she was Secretary of State for the United States (and involved in Libya up to her eyeballs), didn’t Hillary Clinton “lose” $6,000,000,000 of hard-earned American tax dollars?
Hillary and her lackeys threw out Qadaffi.
Folks and companies “close” to the Clintons were extended exclusive agreements to rebuild and loot that Nation.
You can be sure monies found their way to the Clintons via the Clinton “Charity”
Do not forget the Clintons.
The only companies looting and rebuilding Libya were those connected to Trudeau or the Clintons.
They got the work, and an opportunity to “wet their beak”, because of the kick backs flowing to Clinton
Not from, for Gaddafi. At least as I read it.
“Recouped $100 million”
“Recouped”
Ben Aïssa claims he travelled to Libya in August 2011, after civil war had broken out, and successfully recouped $100 million owed to SNC-Lavalin for its work on construction projects.
Has nothing to do with the bribes, but rather work performed, or claimed work performed. They had various contracts over 10 years that had a value of 1.85 billion. The claim is they secured these contracts with bribes, and was the stach of cash you claim were from Gaddafi, but they were for Gaddafi. 8>)
I think we actually agree.
I don’t think they received that cash from Qadaffi.
He was in the middle of a fight.
Let’s be Clear: they set him up + he was Murdered by his own people. Like him or not, that nasty S.O.B. gave up all his Nuclear crap to the USA, years earlier. She got him killed. Just for Clarity.
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