An Ottawa-area businessman convicted of arranging illicit payments for public officials in India in a bid to win a $100 million security contract with Air India received a three-year prison sentence today at the Ontario Superior Court in Ottawa.
The landmark bribery case of Nazir Karigar ihas been watched closely by law enforcement and international business observers, as it marks the first sentence handed down against an individual under Canada’s Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA).
The Crown had asked for a four year prison term.
The defence was asking for a conditional sentence for Karigar, who was convicted of conspiring in 2005 and 2006 to bribe a government of India minister and officials at the state-owned airline in hopes of winning the contract for Cryptometrics Canada, a subsidiary of a U.S. company, to supply facial recognition technology.
The maximum Karigar could have received was five years in prison, although the law was recently amended for future prosecutions, raising the maximum to 14 years.
23/05/14 CBC, Canada
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The landmark bribery case of Nazir Karigar ihas been watched closely by law enforcement and international business observers, as it marks the first sentence handed down against an individual under Canada’s Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA).
The Crown had asked for a four year prison term.
The defence was asking for a conditional sentence for Karigar, who was convicted of conspiring in 2005 and 2006 to bribe a government of India minister and officials at the state-owned airline in hopes of winning the contract for Cryptometrics Canada, a subsidiary of a U.S. company, to supply facial recognition technology.
The maximum Karigar could have received was five years in prison, although the law was recently amended for future prosecutions, raising the maximum to 14 years.
23/05/14 CBC, Canada
