Malta used in Canadian company's bribes to Gaddafi son

A son of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi allegedly received 120 million euros ($162 million) in bribes for giving major contracts in Libya to SNC-Lavalin Inc , Canada's biggest engineering and construction company, a police document released yesterday shows. According to an affidavit the Royal Canadian Mounted Police used to obtain a search warrant at SNC's head office last April, the bribes were paid, in a roundabout way, to Saadi Gaddafi by Riadh Ben Aissa, a vice-president at Montreal-based SNC at the time. “It is alleged that these sums of money were paid as compensation for having influenced the granting of major contracts to SNC-Lavalin Int.,” Cpl. Brenda Makad, a member of the RCMP’s Ottawa-based anti-corruption squad, wrote in the French-language sworn statement.For example, she wrote, SNC-Lavalin had transferred $11.4-million Euros and $1.65 DEM to a bank account in Malta. The funds were then transferred to accounts in Geneva, Milan and Malta held by a company called Dorion Business Ltd., which was controlled by  Gadhafi. The transfer was labelled, “Consultant commissions paid by the Societé Canadienne S&C Lavalin.” In one instance, SNC-Lavalin allegedly transferred...