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The man who used to run the city of Laval’s engineering department will probably be heading to a federal penitentiary as soon as next week, after entering guilty pleas to the same corruption-related charges that resulted in the city’s former mayor being incarcerated just months ago.

Claude Deguise, 60, the city of Laval’s head of engineering between 1997 and 2008, entered guilty pleas to three charges at the Laval courthouse on Tuesday. Two other men, the heads of construction firms, also pleaded guilty to being part of the same conspiracy that, according to a statement of facts presented during a hearing before Superior Court Justice James Brunton, was part of “a system of collusion and corruption where colluding companies” agreed to pay two per cent of the value of the contracts they were awarded back to city officials in the form of bribes.

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Former Laval mayor Gilles Vaillancourt is currently serving a six-year sentence after pleading guilty in December. He was the first person to plead guilty to charges produced in Project Honorer, the Unité permanente anticorruption investigation that resulted in charges being filed against 37 people in 2013. As of Tuesday, five people have pleaded guilty to charges filed in the case. Deguise is the second person who worked for the municipality to plead guilty.