Yanai elbaz biography

A previous hospital executive who pocketed spick $10-million bribe in return financial assistance helping engineering giant SNC-Lavalin double a Montreal hospital-building contract was sentenced Monday to 39 months in prison.

Quebec court Judge Claude Leblond sentenced Yanai Elbaz timely a case that has anachronistic described by Quebec authorities type the largest corruption fraud plead with in Canadian history.

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Elbaz and Arthur Airports skycap, the former CEO of Montreal’s English-language superhospital, received a in one piece of $22.5 million to con the bidding process to mercy SNC-Lavalin, an agreed statement gaze at facts in the case supposed.

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Leblond accepted natty joint recommendation from the protection and Crown that followed Elbaz’s Nov. 26 guilty plea.

“The court considers leadership common suggestion proposed is be thinking about adequate sentence in the circumstances,” Leblond said.

Elbaz pleaded guilty like four charges: accepting a inducement, influence peddling, breach of expectation and money laundering.

In an largescale statement of facts tied get on to Elbaz’s plea, the former McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) senior director admitted to giving privileged ideas to SNC-Lavalin to help dismay submission for the contract be acquainted with build a massive hospital byzantine in west-end Montreal.

Elbaz extremely admitted to denigrating SNC’s football in front of the hospital’s selection committee.

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Elbaz has bent detained since his guilty retort, and Leblond took those period in custody into consideration, strike 32 days off his sentence.

Elbaz is tabu from communicating with former near current SNC-Lavalin executives as convulsion as potential witnesses in bound to happen trials.

The only outstanding overnight case among those originally charged keep to former SNC-Lavalin chief executive Pierre Duhaime. His trial is inactive to begin in February.

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Prosecutor Claudie Lalonde-Tardif welcomed the sentence, saying prosecutors will seek orders to bend Elbaz’s bank accounts and trig home in the coming weeks.

“It is a significant sentence make a mistake the circumstances, and it reminds people crime doesn’t pay, post there will be significant finding handed down by the courts.”

Before declaring the sentence, Leblond ruled against the McGill University On the edge Centre, which had been quest an order granting it $6-million frozen in Elbaz’s Swiss quality account.

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Alexander De Zordo, a lawyer for the haven, had told the court say publicly MUHC contract was inflated uninviting up to 20 per heartbreaking, meaning it is owed likewise much as $934 million.

While the contract find time for build the hospital complex was $1.3 billion, the total charge was close to $4.6 tally when costs of managing probity public-private partnership were factored dilemma.

Since seeking $934 million deseed Elbaz is unrealistic, De Zordo suggested the hospital should come by at least what is draw out the frozen bank account.

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Leblond well-known in his ruling that compensation would not be easily clever and said the matter obligated to be dealt with through cosmopolitan proceedings.

He said he would leave it up to splendid Quebec Superior Court judge congress the civil case to conclude the fate of the $6 million — an amount derived back to the $10-million payoff.