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Mexico: Canadian Accused in Plot to Help Qaddafi’s Son Is Released Mexico: Canadian Accused in Plot to Help Qaddafi’s Son Is Released
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A Canadian woman charged with plotting to smuggle Saadi el-Qaddafi, a son of the former Libyan dictator, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, into Mexico was released from a Mexican prison on Friday. The case of the woman, Cynthia Vanier, is linked to actions of senior executives of SNC-Lavalin, a large international engineering company based in Montreal, which had enjoyed a close relationship with the Qaddafi family. Ms. Vanier, who had traveled to Libya for the company, said she was in Mexico to promote a water project. Her release after 18 months of detention followed an appeal to Mexico’s Supreme Court challenging the terms of her arrest. SNC-Lavalin remains the subject of police investigations in Canada and Switzerland, and two of its former executives have been charged with fraud, conspiracy and forgery in Montreal. A Canadian woman charged with plotting to smuggle Saadi el-Qaddafi, a son of the former Libyan dictator, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, into Mexico was released from a Mexican prison on Friday. The case of the woman, Cynthia Vanier, is linked to actions of senior executives of SNC-Lavalin, an international engineering company based in Montreal that had enjoyed a close relationship with the Qaddafi family. Ms. Vanier, who had traveled to Libya for the company, said she was in Mexico to promote a water project. Her release after 18 months of detention followed an appeal to Mexico’s Supreme Court challenging the terms of her arrest. SNC-Lavalin remains the subject of police investigations in Canada and Switzerland, and two of its former executives have been charged with fraud, conspiracy and forgery in Montreal.