Millions in contract Accurso

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Tony Accurso is undergoing his trial at the courthouse in Joliette. He was arrested by UPAC in 2012 during operation Gravel on corruption in Mascouche.

Geneviève Quessy

On Tuesday 16 January 2018 14:17

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JOLIETTE | Tony Accurso would have obtained for several tens of millions of dollars of contracts when Richard Marcotte, mayor of Mascouche. It should have gotten the money in Switzerland, in addition to go on the yacht of the entrepreneur in return.

The former city councillor in the City of Mascouche from 1999 to 2013, Normand Pagé, testified Wednesday at the courthouse in Joliette at the jury trial of businessman Tony Accurso, who was accused of bribery of a public official and abuse of trust.

Mr. Pagé has detailed records of contracts awarded by the City of Mascouche, the Régie d’assainissement des eaux Terrebonne-Mascouche and management of the aqueduct intermunicipale des Moulins, between 2005 and 2010, totaling many millions of dollars to the firm, Simard-Beaudry, owned by Accurso.

The Crown announced Monday his intention to prove that the ex-mayor Marcotte has affected the money paid into an account in Switzerland in exchange for public contracts.

According to the wording of resolutions presented by Mr. Pagé, Simard-Beaudry would have been the lowest bidder in the framework of each of the tenders.

Marcotte admits

Pushed by the opposition, in the heart of the 2009 election campaign, the late mayor of Mascouche, Richard Marcotte, was forced to admit to his advisers that he had stayed on the boat Touch, owned by Accurso.

“It was the middle of the November 2009 elections. There had been early voting on the Sunday before, and in the following week, the information is output in the media as what Mr. Marcotte was the one who went on the boat of Mr. Accurso. The people who stood against our party have benefited and have made a scandal with it. It is there that he [Richard Marcotte] has confirmed to us that he had gone on the boat. “

The mayor Marcotte would have stayed three days on the luxurious yacht in 2008, according to Normand Pagé.

“I think it corresponded with his honeymoon trip “, he added.