Three former top executives of SNC-Lavalin have been acquitted in an international bribery case linked to Padma bridge construction in Bangladesh.
Kevin Wallace, Ramesh Shah, and Zulfiquar Ali Bhuiyan had pleaded not guilty.
Last month, Superior Court Justice Ian Nordheimer ruled that wiretap evidence had to be excluded.
An Ontario Superior Court justice dismissed the case yesterday at the prosecution’s request, reports CBCNews.
As a result, the prosecution on Friday elected to call no evidence and the accused were acquitted, a prosecution spokeswoman said.
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On December 17 of the year, Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed a graft conspiracy case with Banani Police Station in Dhaka against Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, ex-Bridges Division secretary; Kazi Mohammad Ferdous, the then superintendent engineer of Bangladesh Bridge Authority, and Reaz Ahmed Zaber, the then executive engineer of the Roads and Highways Department.
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