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SNC-Lavalin: Canada Border Services Agency

Gary Peters Dept: Gary Peters spent almost five hours at the Canada Border Services Agency offices in Mississauga, Ont., where he was questioned about the Montreal-based engineering giant's role in financing some of his international travels, according to Montreal Gazette. SNC-Lavalin announced earlier on Tuesday it had launched an independent investigation into $35-million worth of improperly documented payments related to construction projects "and certain other contracts" in the last quarter of 2011 and the Ontario private security contractor who helped dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's family flee Libya during last year's revolution was grilled by Canadian immigration officials Tuesday about his ties to SNC-Lavalin. Asked what the CBSA officers wanted to know about SNC-Lavalin, Mr. Peters replied: "What trips they paid for, how much they paid, who paid, who was the contact. That's what they were asking about that. How I got paid." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.