The RCMP says a former SNC-Lavalin government has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in jail in reference to a bribery scheme for a bridge restore contract in Montreal.
Police say Normand Morin, as soon as a high-ranking vice-president on the engineering agency, obtained the sentence Tuesday after his conviction for corruption and fraud final month.
The police investigation revealed that SNC-Lavalin executives paid bribes of $2.23 million in an effort to safe a $128-million contract to restore the Jacques-Cartier Bridge deck within the early 2000s.
In 2017, Michel Fournier, former CEO of the Federal Bridge Company, admitted to receiving the bribes via Swiss financial institution accounts between 1997 and 2004.
Fournier was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in jail and has since obtained full parole.
SNC-Lavalin — now often known as AtkinsRealis — agreed in 2022 to pay Quebec practically $30 million over three years to settle legal bribery prices stemming from work on the bridge that runs between Montreal and Longueuil, Que.
