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MUHC fraud case back in court end of September

Crown prosecutors and defence lawyers working on the MUHC fraud case are scheduled to be back in court on Sept. 27.

They met before a judge for a pre-trial meeting on Thursday. Proceedings are under a publication ban.

A date for the trial has not been set.

Former SNC-Lavalin CEO Pierre Duhaime and Riadh Ben Aïssa, who once served as a vice-president of the engineering firm’s construction division, are accused of paying $22.5 million in bribes to win the contract to build the $1.3-billion MUHC superhospital.

Read more at Montreal Gazette

This article is summarized by Canadian Fraud News Inc.