At the World Economic Forum meeting last month in Davos, Switzerland,Neil Bruce, president and CEO of Montreal-based design-build giant SNC-Lavalin Inc., was named to co-chair its Partnering Against Corruption Initiative (PACI), a CEO-led anti-corruption effort, the firm said on Jan. 29.

SNC-Lavalin说，PACI与外部团体合作，将建立“行业实践，以重建和促进商业和机构的信任”。它有大约90个公司签署者。其他联合主席是德勤全球主席David Cruickshankand Thomson Reuters USA CEO詹姆斯·史密斯（James C. Smith）. Fluor Corp. ChairmanDavid T. Seaton是PACI转向委员会成员。

Bruce has advanced SNC-Lavalin’s implementation of a more robust ethics and anti-corruption platform for its estimated 50,000 global employees since 2012, when details surfaced of alleged bribes by some executives to win contracts in Canada, Libya and Bangladesh. These incidents occurred before Bruce joined the firm in 2013 and became CEO in 2015; executives involved no longer work for the firm.

Bruce said in December that SNC-Lavalin reached an agreement with Québec government agencies under the province’s Voluntary Reimbursement Program to settle improper payments over the past 20 years stemming from fraud or fraudulent tactics used to win public contracts. The payment amounts and other terms were not disclosed.

根据多伦多律师事务所McCarthyTétraultLLP，SNC-Lavalin的一月份在线审查，两家子公司和两名前高管将于9月份进行审判，与利比亚支付的刑事指控有关。父母和单位对两项指控不认罪。其他前执行剂的审判定于10月和明年一月。

但是SNC-Lavalin可能能够解决这些指控，因为加拿大认为制定了延期起诉协议（DPA）方法，与美国，英国和其他G-7国家不同，现在缺乏这种方法。DPA将允许公司通过同意恢复原状，补救步骤和独立监控等措施来解决刑事指控。布鲁斯（Bruce）曾是加拿大高管之一，他们在与联邦官员的公共公共磋商中作证了DPA。今年晚些时候，加拿大将发布有关DPA方法的建议，并可能对政府承包商进行贬低规则的改革。