https://nationalpost.com/news/millions-in-snc-lavalin-bribes-bought-gaddafi-son-luxury-yachts-unsealed-rcmp-documents-allege
Millions in SNC-Lavalin bribes bought Gaddafi's playboy son luxury yachts, unsealed RCMP documents allege
An RCMP search warrant document unsealed Friday said the bribes were paid to Saadi Gaddafi by Riadh Ben Aissa, who was then vice-president of Montreal-based SNC-Lavalin. Mr. Ben Aissa has since left the company and is now jailed in Switzerland
January 25, 2013
In the sworn statement, the RCMP also implicated Mr. Ben Aissa and former SNC-Lavalin controller Stéphane Roy in an alleged plot to smuggle Mr. Gaddafi and his family to Mexico as the Libyan dictatorship was falling to NATO-backed rebels in 2011.
During the Gaddafi dictatorship, SNC-Lavalin won several contracts in Libya worth hundreds of millions. The RCMP said it was seeking documents on four of them: the Benghazi airport, Great Man-Made River, Benghazi Lake rehabilitation and Gharyan Rehabilitation Institution (Judicial City).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNC-Lavalin#Libya_(2011)
A 2012 CBC News report, said that the first reports of murky affairs surfaced against the company in 2010 in relation to contracts in Libya.[6] According to a CBC News article, a Libyan bribery and fraud scandal involving crimes that took place from 2001-2011 led to charges in "connection with payments of nearly $48 million" to Libyan public officials.[53] In the same article, it was reported that the company was also accused of "defrauding Libyan organizations of an estimated $130 million".[53][50]
In 2015, SNC-Lavelin was charged with bribing Libyan officials in exchange for construction contracts between 2001 and 2011.[50] In 2011, the RCMP began their investigation called Project Assistance which was triggered by a tip from Swiss authorities.[54] According to an August 8, 2013 Financial Post article, Michael Novak who, had been the head of SNC International, had signed "several of the contracts between SNC and "unknown commercial consultants to help win contracts" for "work in Africa".[55][56] This included a contract with former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi's controversial government.[57] By the summer of 2013, police alleged that the "unknown commercial consultants" had never existed and that Ben Aissa had "set up shell companies so he could pocket the [$56 million] himself".[56][58] By July 2014, Aissa was jailed in Switzerland for "suspicion of corruption, fraud and money-laundering in North Africa".[59][60][Notes 4] When SNC-Lavalin pulled out of Libya in 2011, it left behind $22.9 million in Libyan banks.[61] In 2013, Roy filed a countersuit for wrongful dismissal, claiming lost wages and damages to his reputation, alleging that he had been framed and scapegoated by higher-level executives whose directives he was obliged to follow.[62][63][64][65][Notes 5]
By February 2012, SNC investors had found out that audited financial statements had been delayed to accommodate an internal review relating to SNC's operations. The internal review probed $35 million of unexplained payments in Libya. Prior to the launch of the investigation, there had been months-long media speculation about the company's work in Libya and its ties to the Muammar Gaddafi family.[66][67][68] In 2012, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigated the company on these charges in the Project Assistance investigation and,[69] in 2015, they charged SNC-Lavalin with "fraud and corruption", which the company indicated they would contest in court.[70]