The Quebec Court of Appeal has sided with SNC-Lavalin, saying its auditors can be given details about the investigation into the scandal that has engulfed the engineering giant. The province's security regulator feared there would have been a risk of "collusion" if the company's auditors had access.
In a ruling issued Wednesday, Quebec's highest court supported the review office of l'Autorite des marches financiers, which allowed an SNC-Lavalin executive under investigation to provide details to the company's audit committee and external auditors Deloitte & Touche.
The Bureau de decision et de revision en valeurs mobilieres authorized the committee and Deloitte to "review" all proposals for directing responses to the AMF's requests for information and documents.
Some former employees of the Montreal-based firm have been accused of ethical breaches, including $56 million of payments to unknown agents and $160 million in alleged bribes to the family of deposed Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
In November, former company CEO Pierre Duhaime was arrested and charged with fraud involving about $22 million allegedly involving a super hospital in Montreal.
SNC-Lavalin had argued that the accounting firm would likely not approve 2012 financial statements if it wasn't informed about the nature of the AMF investigation.
Such a situation could create "confusion" in the markets, affect the company's share price and even lead to SNC suffering "dramatic damage," the company claimed.
The regulator had raised the risk of "collusion" by members of senior management of SNC-Lavalin, its directors and external auditors to undermine the investigation.
The regulatory body was ready to allow SNC to report the state of the investigation to its board, audit committee and Deloitte, but without providing details.
In his 19-page ruling, Justice Pierre Dalphond noted that the AMF provided no conclusive evidence of a risk of collusion. According to him, the bureau made a reasoned decision.
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