20 mois de «prison» dans une maison à 1 M$
L’homme qui a pris part au pire cas de corruption de l’histoire du Canada évite la prison. Le PDG déchu de SNC-Lavalin, Pierre Duhaime, n’aura qu’à passer 20 mois dans sa luxueuse maison de près d’un million $ érigée au bord de l’eau.
En , la Couronne était pourtant convaincue que les crimes de Duhaime étaient si graves qu’elle avait déposé une quinzaine d’accusations, dont celles de complot et de fraude.
Mais le ballon s’est dégonflé puisque seul le chef d’abus de confiance a été maintenu, vendredi, lorsque l’accusé de 64 ans a admis avoir participé au gigantesque scandale de corruption du Centre universitaire de santé McGill (CUSM).
C’est dans cette maison cossue de l’ouest de Montréal que l’ex-PDG de SNC-Lavalin, Pierre Duhaime, purgera sa peine de 20 mois, qualifiée de « dissuasive » par la Couronne, pour avoir participé au pire cas de corruption au Canada. Photo Pierre-Paul Poulin
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SNC-Lavalin réclame des millions à son ex-PDG
SNC-Lavalin poursuit son ancien PDG Pierre Duhaime et lui réclame des millions en dommages parce qu’elle lui reproche d’avoir causé du tort à l’entreprise en fermant les yeux sur la corruption.
L’attitude de M. Duhaime « a emmené les plaignants à être liés dans l’opinion publique avec des individus qui ont été accusés ou condamnés pour des infractions criminelles, ternissant ainsi l’excellente réputation dont jouissaient les plaignants au Québec et à travers le monde », écrivent les avocats de SNC-Lavalin dans leur poursuite déposée à la Cour supérieure et obtenue par La Presse.
Les réclamations de l’entreprise concernent le dossier du Centre universitaire de santé McGill (CUSM), et non les accusations de corruption en Libye qui sont toujours pendantes devant les tribunaux.
Dans l’affaire du CUSM, SNC-Lavalin avait versé 22,5 millions en pots-de-vin pour remporter le contrat de construction du
SNC-Lavalin fraud charges a 'wake-up call' for stakeholders in public-private partnerships
The fraud allegations against former SNC CEO Pierre Duhaime and another former SNC executive have shaken the financial community and raised questions about the P3 process
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The massive scale of public-private partnerships — which can cost hundreds of millions of dollars — make the projects more of a magnet for greed, experts say in the wake of a corruption scandal involving construction giant SNC-Lavalin Inc.
On Wednesday morning, investigators arrived at the home of former CEO Pierre Duhaime and charged him with fraud in relation to a $billion contract to build and maintain the McGill University Health Centre’s new hospital, one of Quebec’s highest-profile public-private partnerships (P3).
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SNC-Lavalin (TSX:SNC) is one of the leading engineering and construction groups in the world and a major player in the ownership of infrastructure, and in the provision of operations and maintenance services. SNC-Lavalin has offices across Canada and in over 35 other countries around the world, and is currently working in some countries.
Pierre Duhaime has over 30 years of engineering, construction and project management experience, primarily in the fields of industrial process plants and non-ferrous metals.
Born in Quebec in , Mr Duhaime holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Metallurgy from the École Polytechnique, an affiliate of the Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada and an M.B.A. from HEC Montréal
Mr Duhaime began his career as a metallurgist at Noranda in Through the s, he advanced to the level of Project Manager at Canadian Electrolytic Zinc and the American Iron and Metal Company.
Mr Duhaime joined SNC-Lavalin in as a Project Manager in the Industrial Division. He was promoted to Director of Technology for the Division in and appointed its Vice-President of Projects and Technology in
Mr Duhaime assumed increasingly senior positions in the Industrial Division, as w
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