The Royal Canadian Mounted Police filed criminal charges against two former senior SNC-Lavalin executives on Friday.
RCMP Cpl. Lucy Shorey said, former executive vice-president Sami Abdallah Bebawi has been charged with fraud over $5,000; two counts of laundering proceeds of crime; four counts of possession of property obtained by crime; and with bribing a foreign public official.
Cpl. Shorey said the alleged offences occurred between 2001 and 2013. A warrant has been issued for Bebawi’s arrest as his whereabouts are unknown.
Stephane Roy, a former vice-president at SNC-Lavalin, was charged with fraud over $5,000; bribing a foreign public official; and contravening a United Nations economic measures act related to Libya. These offences are alleged to have occurred between 2008 and 2012.
Roy is to appear in court on March 5th, 2014.
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