L’art de la podosuction et SNC-Lavalin
(Une des cinq grandes puissances mondiales de l’ingénierie-construction, avec des revenus de 6,3 milliards de dollars, un carnet de commandes de 13 milliards de dollars et plus de 24 000 employés.)
Un grand moment pour l’art; en 2005, Saïf al-Islam, le fils du colonel Kadhafi était venu exposer ses toiles au Marché Bonsecours avec l’appui financier de SNC-Lavalin.
Comme le rapporte Isabelle Hachey, « L’ex-président de SNC-Lavalin, Jacques Lamarre avait déclaré à La Presse ( septembre 2005) que le colonel Kadhafi était «un grand démocrate» qui avait fait beaucoup pour le continent africain. »
Lu aussi dans Libya Report à propos de cette même exposition: « We know the country well, » said Gillian MacCormack, a vice-president for engineering giant SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. « We know it’s a country in transition. . . . It’s a country where we see shared values. » Lavalin, which has projects in Libya, has been spearheading the exhibit, with help from the Canadian embassy, one executive said. »
Et aussi, dans Heral-Tribune: » The company also courted a Qaddafi son, Seif al-Islam. Petro-Canada sponsored an exhibit of his paintings — ridiculed by Canadian critics as »lurid » and a »triumph of banality » — after museums refused. A Montreal business, SNC-Lavalin, which won more than $1 billion in Libyan contracts, also sponsored the exhibit and a soccer team that hired another Qaddafi son, Saadi, as a player. »
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Vidéo brésilien présentant quelques toiles du Léonard de Vinci des sables.
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Nous recommandons aux méchantes langues qui pourraient faire un lien entre l’encouragement d’un artiste et les contrats donnés par son papa, de lire cet extrait d’un article d’Engineering News-Record (February 2, 2004).
« Heads of 19 international construction firms agreed last month to embrace a policy of « zero tolerance » toward business bribery and to enforce it with internal compliance systems. The executives signed the anti-corruption pledge during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. »
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« Our industry is pleased to join other major business sectors that have been working to develop industry-specific guidelines and practices for stamping out corruption, » says Alan Boeckmann, chairman and CEO of Fluor Corp,. Aliso Viejo, Calif. He led a Forum task force that developed the agreement with German-based Transparency International and Swiss-based Basel Institute on Governance. »
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Parmi les signataires, Canada’s SNC-Lavalin Group. « Once a company stands up and says it’s going to stand by the anti-corruption principles, it must stick to it, » says Neil Stansbury, TI project director for construction and engineering. »
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Par ailleurs, on peut lire dans Tehelka, (April 30, 2011) l’hebdo indien de New Delhi, cet article de Iftikhar Gilani:
Some top Indian bureaucrats guilty of corruption, says CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation)
As many as 17 top officials representing the senior bureaucracy are believed to have amassed or misappropriated nearly Rs 603 crore between 2007 and 2010.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has submitted a list of the officials under investigation to the parliamentary committee on assurances. The CBI says these officers had misappropriated funds from the exchequer and entered into criminal conspiracies by making huge illegal financial transactions.
The CBI says it also found investments disproportionate to their income.
A few prominent cases are:
1. K Mohan Chandan, former principal secretary to the Kerala government and chair, state electricity board, entered into a criminal conspiracy by ordering renovation and modernisation work of three hydroelectric power projects to a Canadian firm SNC Lavalin bypassing rules, regulations and normal procedures. The officer under trial allegedly allowed SNC Lavalin to cheat the Kerala government to the tune of Rs 86.25 crore. The loss was estimated at Rs 98.3 crore.
Voir aussi: L’Inde veut faire extrader un ex-dirigeant de SNC-Lavalin accusé de corruption
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La Gendarmerie royale du Canada a mené, jeudi dernier, des perquisitions dans les bureaux ontariens de la firme québécoise d’ingénierie et de construction SNC-Lavalin. Le corps policier a agi à la demande de l’unité anticorruption de la Banque mondiale.
Canadian company says it’s cooperating with corruption probe
Un géant centenaire – entrevue avec Pierre Duhaime (Gérard Bérubé).
Par ailleurs, ce passage intéressant dans le Wall Street Journal ( 2 septembre)
« Canada was admonished by anti-corruption activist group Transparency International in May for securing only one foreign-bribery conviction at the time. Transparency International said it was the worst anti-bribery performer in the Group of 7 nations. »
Remarque:
Transparency International classe l’industrie de la construction comme la plus corrompue dans le monde. Et cette corruption est généralisée : elle sévit autant dans les pays développés que dans les pays émergents. À un point tel que TI a créé un groupe voué spécialement à la lutte contre la corruption dans l’industrie de la construction, le Global Infrastructure Anti-Corruption Centre (GIACC).