According to a story in the Toronto Star, SNC Lavalin was just awarded a federal government contract after having recently been banned from World Bank work for ten years due to a bribery scandal:
A lucrative contract for Canadian troop support has been awarded to a joint venture company partly owned by a division of SNC-Lavalin Group that is banned from bidding on aid contracts by the World Bank.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government has issued a defence contract worth up to $400 million to SNC-Lavalin PAE Inc., just months after SNC-Lavalin’s parent company in Montreal agreed to a 10-year ban on World Bank contracts for more than 100 of its affiliates.
The report notes that while the World Bank ban could preclude SNC from bidding on Canadian foreign aid work, it does not apply to domestic contracts issues directly by the federal government.
