A former manager of the consulting engineering firm Groupe SM, Dany Moreau, pleaded guilty Monday morning to charges of conspiracy and fraud in connection with an investigation by the Permanent Anti-Corruption Unit (UPAC) and he received 21 months in prison. home prison.
He was arrested in 2017 as part of the Fronde project.
According to evidence presented in the courtroom, between 2004 and 2009, around thirty municipal contracts for professional services were granted in exchange for political financing for the Union Montréal party, rebates and other personal benefits.
Firms saw themselves winning public contracts in turn, without having to take part in the call for tenders process.
Mr. Moreau received, following a joint suggestion, a home prison sentence of 21 months, the first 11 months of which must be served 24 hours a day in his residence.
For a period of 45 minutes, once a day, Dany Moreau will be able to go outside her residence to walk her dog. He had no criminal history. His lawyer, Me Alexandre Bergeron spoke of professional decline.
-He was struck off as an engineer for a period of 15 months in 2019. He is now a worker in the construction field.
By pleading guilty, Dany Moreau acknowledges the existence of a network of 13 engineering consulting firms, municipal officials as well as an elected official who, between them, had developed a contract sharing system.
He therefore cuts short the legal proceedings, he who was part of the group of accused who are expected at the Montreal courthouse on February 3 for a long four-month trial in connection with public contracts totaling $160 million, in Montreal.
Among them, the former number two in the City of Montreal Frank Zampino, the former right-hand man of ex-mayor Gérald Tremblay.
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