Leaked banking records show Canada’s Bombardier Inc. was paid tens of millions of dollars by a shell company that received money from the massive Russian tax fraud that cost accountant Sergei Magnitsky his life.
The records from Lithuania’s now-defunct Ukios Bankas − obtained by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and shared with The Globe and Mail − reveal that Bombardier was paid US$42.5-million over three transactions in 2008 by a company called Flashback Services Limited. All three transactions are marked “Aircraft Sales Invoice” or “Aircraft Invoice.”
Scandalous. Recall Bombardier successfully lobbied the Canadian Government to keep corrupt & criminal Putin officials off of our Magnitsky justice and accountability list. Targeted sanctions implementation should be revisited in light of this.https://t.co/f4GhfO3uxb
— Irwin Cotler (@IrwinCotler) March 8, 2019
Bombardier Libranos and Russian collusion? Say it ain’t so!
Hmmm…
Is it just me, or does anyone suppose that, from a political perspective, the mooted Deferred Prosecution Agreement at issue in the SNC-Lavalin Affair, which, after all, only concerns the alleged illegal use of ordinary, everyday shareholder money, as opposed to, er, laundered money from criminal activity, was merely the opening precedent-setting play in a longer and bigger game?
Sort of the “thin edge of the wedge”? As a kind of “insurance policy” (to invoke an expression with some currency in another on-going North American controversy)? Just in (pardon the pun) case things start to spiral out of control for certain other Quebec-based businesses, who maybe are known for having received subsidies, maybe as recently as 18 months ago, from government of Canada?
You know, an “insurance policy” that might benefit a certain political outfit whose leader represents a Montreal-area riding and which has well-known ties to the business community in Quebec?
Oh, never mind…that’s gotta be CRAZY!!!! Especially with another former Attorney-General of Canada (of, um, the very same political outfit) working to put some daylight between the Quebec-based business involved in this new matter and the government of Canada.
Does the name Browder appear?
Laced throughout the article.
The ROT being exposed is of a scale that to most, defies belief. My experience has shown me that it’s endemic, historical and never ever ending in Quebec Society / Business. Live there, work in a Sales Capacity ..?and it will hit you in the face from day 1.
It’s in their gutless cowardly Lying Genes.
A short look and something found.. Thanks kate.