MONTREAL — Rosaire Sauriol, the engineering executive who testified before the Charbonneau Commission last week about using false invoices to collect money to fund municipal political parties, has resigned.
Dessau Inc. said in a news release Monday that it had accepted Sauriol’s resignation, effective immediately. Sauriol, a senior vice-president at Dessau, had been with the company since 1986.
At the Charbonneau Commission, Sauriol said that Dessau had used fake invoices to collect $2 million which was used to fund municipal political parties. Sauriol also said the company reimbursed its employees for most of their personal donations to Quebec provincial political parties between 1998 and 2010.
Dessau said that is has worked on several fronts since 2009 to correct an “unacceptable” situation, by changing its business practices and strengthening several aspects of its code of ethics.
Dessau is the sixth largest engineering-construction company in Canada.
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