SNC-Lavalin: Gadhafi

Gadhafi: The Montreal-based company even asked the Canadian government to grant Gadhafi's son a temporary work permit to bring him to Canada to help expand business in a group of North African countries known as the Maghreb, according to CBC. Saadi Gadhafi was not only the playboy son of late Libyan dictator, but he was a top public official in Libya prior to 2011. He oversaw the granting of billions of dollars in contracts for engineering megaprojects. SNC-Lavalin unabashedly courted favour with him over the years, paying for various trips to Canada, as well as paying for a condo for him in Toronto and buying a 45-metre yacht for his use and SNC-Lavalins ties to Libyas former dictatorship ran so deep the company offered the son of Moammar Gadhafi a six-figure job as a vice president in 2008, according to a newly unsealed RCMP affidavit. Al-Saadi Gadhafi was offered the title of V-P Maghreb along with a three-year contract at $150,000 annual salary, according to a letter seized by the RCMP from SNC-Lavalin headquarters in 2012. The information was revealed for the first time in a 114-page affidavit prepared by RCMP Cpl. Alexandre Beaulieu. The document spells out the RCMPs belief that executives and the company itself bribed foreign officials and defrauded shareholders of tens of millions of dollars. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.