But the wrongful behaviour occurred between 1997 and 2004. The engineering and project management company agreed with Quebec prosecutors to pay $29.6 million over three years to settle criminal bribery charges. It was another case involving SNC-Lavalin in 2019 that put the deferred prosecution regime to the test and ended in political scandal. Former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould claimed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau inappropriately pushed her to cut a deal with SNC-Lavalin over its alleged corrupt dealings in Libya. Wilson-Raybould refused to pursue a remediation agreement with the company, and claimed this was why she was ousted from the portfolio, though Trudeau denied the allegations. A division of SNC-Lavalin ended up pleading guilty to fraud related to its Libya dealings in 2019, agreeing to pay a $280 million fine among other conditions.