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BY SHANNON KARI
CHRISTOPH
HITZ
hen the non-governmental organization Transparency
International hosted its 16th annual anti-corruption
conference in Malaysia in early September, one of
its keynote speakers might have seemed, at least on the
surface, to be an unusual choice.
Robert Card, the then president and chief executive of
SNC-Lavalin, addressed delegates and was part of a panel
discussion entitled "keeping business clean and stopping illicit
fi nancial fl ows," at the three-day conference.
The Montreal-based engineering company operates in nearly 100
countries worldwide, with 40,000 employees and $10 billion in revenue.
Yet its reputation continues to suffer as a result of an ongoing criminal
fraud prosecution against several former executives, including its former
CEO, in connection with alleged payments to obtain the McGill
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