SNC-Lavalin Loses Court Bid for Special Agreement to Avoid Criminal Prosecution

SNC-Lavalin Loses Court Bid for Special Agreement to Avoid Criminal Prosecution
The SNC-Lavalin headquarters in Montreal, Canada, on Feb. 28, 2019. Julien Besset/AFP/Getty Images
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OTTAWA—SNC-Lavalin has a lost a court bid to overturn the public prosecutor’s refusal to negotiate an agreement that would see the company avoid a criminal trial.

In a ruling Friday, the Federal Court of Canada tossed out the Montreal-based engineering firm’s plea for judicial review of the 2018 decision by the director of public prosecutions.