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The former CEO of engineering giant company SNC-Lavalin, Pierre Duhaime, has been arrested on Wednesday after a sum of $56 million were reported missing from his former firm. The former executive of Canada’s largest engineering firm is being questioned by the Quebec provincial police in east-end Montreal.
Duhaime is the second consecutive former SNC executive, who has been arrested because millions of dollars were falsely assigned to construction projects in Libya but instead they ended up being spent somewhere else. Previously, the Swiss officials arrested another former SNC executive, Riadh Ben Aissa in April on charges of corruption, bribery and money laundering connected to the supposed activities in North Africa. SNC fired him from office in February as media reports alleged that he was in business with former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s son, Saadi.
A spokesperson of the Quebec’s anti-corruption unit informed QMI Agency that Ben Aissa is being scheduled to be extradited back to Canada to face same charges as Duhaime, i.e. fraud, conspiracy and producing false documents. Duhaime resigned from the company of Montreal in March amidst colossal scandals involving the company’s ties with Gadhafi. Noticeably, a contractor of the SNC, Cynthia Vanier is also passing time currently of her sentence in a Mexican jail because she was charged of attempting to smuggle Saadi Gadhafi and three of his family members into the country, when the dictator was ousted from power and killed in October 2011. None of the allegations against Duhaime have yet been confirmed in court.
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