Quebec’s Anti-Corruption Squad Arrests Jeremy Morris

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Quebec’s anti-corruption squad made an important arrest on Monday night, taking Jeremy Morris in its custody amid the investigation into fraud allegations related to the contract for building the McGill University Health Centre superhospital, i.e. also called Project Lauréat. Morris was detained as soon as he entered the premises of Trudeau airport, arriving from the Bahamas. The announcement was made in a press release by officials of Unité permanente anti-corruption.

Morris is a principal at the Bahamas-based Sierra Asset Management. He is scheduled to appear in a Montreal court on Tuesday to be formally charged. The warrant for his arrest was issued last month, along with Arthur Porter, the former chief executive of the MUHC, Yana Elbaz, the former MUHC executive in charge of the real estate deal, and Pierre Duhaime and Riahd Ben Assa, respectively the former CEO and vice-president of SNC-Lavalin. The warrant mentiones 12 charges against him, including fraud, breach of trust, secret commissions and corrupting public officials.

The litigations involved the Montreal-based global engineering giant, SNC, which scored a $1.3-billion contract for designing and building the MUHC mega-hospital on the Glen campus after an extensive bidding process. However, The affidavit and warrants claim that an amount of $22-million was paid in shape of bribe for obtaining the contract. Duhaime and Elbaz were previously arrested in February. Whereas, Ben Assa is already imprisoned in a Swiss jail while under investigation into alleged bribes paid to the Gaddafi family to obtain SNC contract in Libya. Lastly, Porter currently resides in Bahamas, where he is fighting Stage 4 lung cancer.

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