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Court documents prepared during the investigation into how the consortium led by SNC-Lavalin fixed the bid to build and maintain McGill University Health Centre superhospital contain witness accounts that allege the engineering firm’s former CEO, Pierre Duhaime, was much more involved in the conspiracy than he admitted to in court recently.

On Feb. 1, Duhaime, 64, walked away from the Montreal courthouse with a sentence that required him to spend no time behind bars after having pleaded guilty to one count of breach of trust. The 20-month sentence he received includes six months of house arrest. He is also required to perform 240 hours of community service and he agreed to make a $200,000 donation to a provincial organization that lends support to the victims of crime.

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Quebec Court Judge Dominique Joly based her decision to agree with the recommended sentence in part on a joint statement of facts — produced by the Crown and Duhaime’s defence lawyer Michel Massicotte — that were entered into the court record on the same day Duhaime pleaded guilty. The statement of facts is a 32-point list, but only a few of the paragraphs make reference to Duhaime’s role in the SNC consortium ending up with the contract to build the hospital and maintain it for 20 years. Late last year, a lawyer for the hospital revealed the overall contract is worth $4.6 billion.