Engineering giant SNC-Lavalin has reached agreement to pay restitution to seven Quebec municipalities for obtaining…
CRA pursuing criminal charges against Panama Papers tax cheats
The Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) investigation into tax cheats taken by Canadians in the Panama Papers has taken a criminal turn. The federal agency is now auditing 122 Canadian who appear in the database and has launched dozens of criminal investigations,...
British-Canadian billionaire middleman in ‘corruption scheme’
Victor Phillip Dahdaleh, a British-Canadian billionaire honoured recently by York University with his name on a new health institute, is the mysterious middleman in a 20-year “corruption scheme” in which U.S. officials say he “enriched himself” with $400 million...
‘Golden Boy’ boxer Lalonde in Costa Rican investment controversy
Donny Lalonde, a former boxing champion once known as Winnipeg’s “Golden Boy,” has drawn the ire of more than two dozen investors who say he didn’t deliver on real estate projects in Costa Rica. Lalonde’s name appears in a complex set of...
SNC-Lavalin paid $22M to offshore company to get Algeria contracts
Montreal-based SNC-Lavalin paid a secret Caribbean-registered company to intercede on its behalf to obtain hundreds of millions of dollars in business in Algeria, the Panama Papers show, in a similar pattern to how the engineering giant operated in Libya, for which it...