Construction and corruption: A former SNCLavalin vice-president found guilty of bribing foreign officials and pocketing millions of dollars lost his appeal on Feb. 13 and was given 48 hours to report to prison.
Sami Bebawi, 76, appealed his 2019 conviction on the grounds that evidence gathered through an RCMP undercover operation that targeted his former lawyer should not have been admitted.
The trial judge ruled the communications obtained from a wiretap of Bebawi’s lawyer was not a professional secret. The wiretap was launched after a government witness told police that Bebawi had offered him a multimillion-dollar bribe to change his testimony. Bebawi’s lawyers argued some of the acts for which he was convicted shouldn’t have been considered fraud because he didn’t put his victim’s financial interests at risk, and as a result, they said the trial judge should have partially acquitted him.The Appeal Court highlighted the “colossal” kickbacks that Bebawi — while he was working for SNC-Lavalin — paid to Saadi Gadhafi, which included $40 million in cash and two yachts worth a total of $37 million.
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