No way of ‘adjudicating facts’ in deals between corrupt firms and prosecutors: Quebec judge
In a series of emails to The Canadian Press, Espino said he wanted to “salvage” his reputation after being “dragged through the muck” during the court process of approving the remediation agreement.
Espino’s lawyer, Philip Aspler, told the judge that the agreed statement of facts was defamatory and “full of inaccuracies, mistakes and outright lies.” But the remediation process had been put in the public eye in 2019, in a separate case involving SNC-Lavalin. Former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould claimed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau inappropriately pushed her to cut a deal with SNC-Lavalin over its corrupt dealings in Libya. She refused, and instead of remediation, the company ended up pleading guilty to fraud.
“The fraud scheme was designed to inflate the price of the contracts and was facilitated through the receipt of commissions,” the Crown’s submissions said.
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