A week after it raided the home and offices of the mayor of Laval, Quebec's anti-corruption unit has descended on the city a second time, hitting at least six construction companies with search warrants.
About 70 officers with the Unité Permanente Anticorruption, or UPAC, began their latest raids before 7 a.m. in the suburban municipality just north of Montreal.
UPAC said it was targeting firms related to construction boss Tony Accurso, who is already facing a dozen criminal charges related to possible tax fraud and bribery in connection with municipal contracts. Accurso's company Simard-Beaudry Construction was raided — for the second time in eight days.
Another firm that was searched Thursday is Nepcon Inc., part of a conglomerate owned by Laval's prominent Mergl family.
A third targeted business, Poly Excavation, co-owns a real-estate company that used to count Laval Mayor Gilles Vaillancourt as one of its shareholders. Vaillancourt, who has been mayor since 1989, says he sold his interest in 2001.
There's another link between Poly Excavation, a sewer and water-main firm owned by the Lefrançois family, and the mayor: Until April, Micheline Lefrançois had a Miami-area condo around the corner from an apartment owned by Vaillancourt's wife.
Accurso's firms, Nepcon and Poly Excavation are among eight companies that were awarded the lion's share of Laval's infrastructure and road work contracts between 2001 and 2008. It is believed investigators are looking into the bidding process for those deals and trying to determine whether it was rigged in the same way that a former construction mogul has testified that it was in Montreal.
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