SNC-Lavalin loses court bid for special agreement to avoid criminal prosecution

OTTAWA -- SNC-Lavalin has a lost a court bid to overturn the public prosecutor's refusal to negotiate an agreement that would see the company avoid a criminal trial. In a ruling Friday, the Federal Court of Canada tossed out the Montreal-based engineering firm's plea for judicial review of the 2018 decision by the director of public prosecutions. SNC-Lavalin faces accusations it paid bribes to obtain government business in Libya -- a criminal case that has prompted a political storm for the Trud