Quebec judge orders former SNC-Lavalin exec back to prison for 10 years (www.cbc.ca)

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Bebawi was sentenced in 2020 to eight and a half years in prison for his role in the corruption scheme between the engineering firm and Moammar Gadhafi's Libyan regime. He was released after serving one-sixth of his sentence.

However, as part of his release conditions, he had to repay a fine of approximately $25 million.

To date, he has only repaid around $100,000, citing lack of funds. It's an excuse the judge dismissed out of hand on Tuesday.

"Mr. Bebawi will not be jailed because he is too poor to pay the fine. He will be jailed because he refuses, without reasonable excuse, to pay it," Moore said.

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[-] RegularJoe@lemmy.world 15 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

So apparently he pocked about 26 million according to this article from Dec 09, 2019:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/sami-bebawi-snc-lavalin-1.5383469

The prosecution is trying to prove SNC-Lavalin transferred about $113 million to shell companies used to pay people who helped the company collect money and secure contracts in Libya, beginning in the late 1990s.

What remained in the accounts after the kickbacks were paid was split between Bebawi and Riadh Ben Aissa, a former colleague, the Crown alleges, with Bebawi pocketing $26 million.

So even if he spent some of it, he should have considerably more than $100K.