On Thursday morning UPAC arrested 37 people on a litany of charges including fraud, corruption, money laundering and gangsterism.
All are accused of conspiring to defraud the citizens of Laval by scheming to control construction contracts in the city of Laval.
The accused
- Gilles Vaillancourt, former mayor of Laval
- Guy Vaillancourt: his brother
- Antonio 'Tony' Accurso, former head of Louisbourg and Simard-Beaudry
- Claude Asselin
- Normand Bedard
- Jean Bertrand, former lawyer for Parti PRO des Lavallois
- Yanick Bouchard, VP for Genivar construction
- Robert Cloutier
- Claude De Guise, former engineer for the city of Laval
- Claude Desjardins
- Guy Desjardins
- Mario Desrochers, sales director at PNS-Tech/Sigma Industries
- Jocelyn Dufresne, civil engineer
- Serge Duplessis, of Dessau Inc.
- Louis Farley of CIMA+
- Alain Filiatreault,
- Laval Gagnon
- Jean Gauthier, a notary
- Giuliano Giuliani of Giuliani Inc. construction
- Guy Jobin
- Pierre L. Lambert, lawyer for Dunton Rainville
- Marc Lefrancois of Poly Excavation
- Anthony Mergl of Nepcon Inc.
- Mike Mergl
- Ronnie Mergl
- Leonardo Moscato, Construction Timberstone
- Joseph Molluso
- Valmont Nadon, Valmont Nadon Excavation
- Carl Ladouceur, Les Excavations Carl Ladouceur
- Lyan Lavallée, Ciments Lavallée
- Daniel Lavallée
- Patrick Lavallée
- Luc Lemay
- Francois Perreault of Genivar
- Rosaire Sauriol, former VP of Dessau construction
- Robert Talbot
- Yves Théberge, CIMA+
