Witness said the firm opted for the black market after its Canadian bank refused to make a currency exchange.

MONTREAL — Paying bribes to obtain lucrative Libyan construction contracts was once the business model for a division of SNC-Lavalin, prosecutors said Thursday as the fraud and corruption trial of a...

Sami Bebawi, 73, faces eight charges including fraud, corruption, laundering proceeds of crime, possession of stolen goods and bribery of foreign officials

Testifying Tuesday morning, key witness Riadh Ben Aissa said he received the offer from Sami Bebawi's lawyer while detained in Switzerland

Riadh Ben Aissa said he was surprised when he received a phone call saying the son of former dictator Moammar Ghadafi wanted a boat.

Libyan water project looked good on paper but there was trouble collecting money, trial is told.

Witness said the firm opted for the black market after its Canadian bank refused to make a currency exchange.

"I have my reasons that I don't have to justify," Riadh Ben Aissa wrote in an email sent from Libya

The Address | Benghazi - Libya MONTREAL - SNC-Lavalin had a thorough set of guidelines to regulate t

The Crown alleges former executive Sami Bebawi pocketed $26 million through the firm's Libya dealings.

"There were no real institutional rules, no checks and balances," Diederik Vandewalle said of Libya.

MONTREAL — An undercover agent was used to flesh out a $10-million bribe offer to a key witness in the case of a former SNC-Lavalin executive on trial for fraud and corruption. Sami Bebawi faces...

A former SNC-Lavalin executive on trial for fraud and corruption hatched a plan to pay a $4-million bribe to a witness in exchange for corroborating testimony, his trial has heard.

MONTREAL — The trial of a former SNC-Lavalin executive heard Friday that the accused told an RCMP officer the gift of a luxury yacht to the son of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi was approved by...

An RCMP officer says Sami Bebawi vented about his former boss denying his involvement with the firm's purchase of a luxury yacht for Saadi Gadhafi.

Bebawi, 73, faces eight charges including fraud, corruption, laundering proceeds of crime, possession of stolen goods and bribery of foreign officials. He has pleaded not guilty

Bebawi, 73, faces eight charges, including fraud, corruption, laundering proceeds of crime, possession of stolen goods and bribery of foreign officials.