Former Canadian Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould said on Wednesday she had ...
OTTAWA - Former Canadian Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould said on Wednesday she had come under persistent and sometimes inappropriate pressure from government officials to be lenient on a major firm facing a bribery trial.
Wilson-Raybould was testifying about a newspaper report that she was pressured by senior officials last year to help SNC-Lavalin Group Inc avoid a corruption trial. SNC-Lavalin, facing a criminal trial on charges of bribing Libyan officials, was seeking a so-called deferred prosecution agreement that would have allowed the firm to escape instead with a large fine.
“Within these conversations, there were expressed statements regarding the necessity of interference in the SNC-Lavalin matter, the potential of consequences and veiled threats if a deferred prosecution agreement was not made available to SNC,” she said.
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