News Massachusetts construction boss sentenced to 18 months The owner of two construction companies in Massachusetts has been sentenced to 18 months in prison and three years of supervision after being found guilty of tax and mail fraud.…
News Modern slavery: 163 Chinese workers rescued from BYD car factory site in Brazil Work on company’s first manufacturing site in Brazil shut down; Contract with Jinjiang Construction Brazil terminated. Brazilian authorities have rescued 163 Chinese workers being held in “conditions analogous to slavery”…
News Bam fined over ‘irregular payments’ in Africa The Dutch Public Prosecutions Office has fined contractor Bam €30,000 over “potentially irregular payments” made during a development in Africa. The potential irregularity was discovered during an investigation into another…
News Massachusetts construction boss sentenced to 18 months for lying about workplace death Mauricio Baiense, the owner and operator of Contract Framing Builders (CFB), a Massachusetts construction company, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for tax fraud and lying under oath…
News Development Bank reinstates China Railway Construction Engineering The African Development Bank (AfDB) has allowed China Railway Construction Engineering (CRCE), a state-owned company, to be reinstated for bidding on bank-financed projects provided it meets guidelines and co-operates with…
News Ex-minister among 12 arrested after Serbian train station collapse A Serbian court on Saturday ordered 10 people, including a former minister, to be detained for up to 30 days over the collapse of a concrete awning at Novi Sad…
News Protests in Serbia after station roof collapse kills 14 A partial roof collapse at a recently renovated train station in the Serbian city of Novi Sad on Friday killed 14 people and seriously injured three. A six-year-old girl was…
News Chinese contractor appeals $1.6bn Baha Mar damages ruling The Chinese contractor who built the Baha Mar resort in the Bahamas has appealed the New York State Supreme Court judge’s ruling earlier this month that it owed the resort’s…
News “Outright sabotage”: Why a judge ordered China Construction America to pay $1.6bn The New York State Supreme Court judge who ruled this month that contractor China Construction America (CCA) owed damages worth $1.6bn to the developer of the Baha Mar resort in…
News Judge orders Chinese contractor to pay $1.6bn over Baha Mar resort A New York State Supreme Court judge has ordered the subsidiary of a major Chinese contractor to pay the developer of the Baha Mar resort in the Bahamas damages of…
News Singapore firms pay $102m to US over Baltimore bridge collapse Two Singaporean companies who owned the ship that rammed into and brought down Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge have agreed to pay just under $102m to settle a claim filed…
News Concrete bosses jailed for years-long price-fixing scam Four executives and a corporation were sentenced last week in the US state of Georgia for participating in a long-running conspiracy to fix prices, rig bids and allocate jobs for…
News US highway contractor pays $950,000 to settle discrimination allegations New Jersey roadbuilder MV Contracting has agreed to pay $950,000 to resolve allegations it represented itself as a disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) to obtain federal contracts, while not accepting any…
News Contractor faces prison over undocumented workers charges The owner of a contractor in West Virginia has been charged with harbouring undocumented workers. If convicted, he faces a lengthy sentence in federal prison. Hetzon Marroquin Reyes, the owner…
News Balfour Beatty pays female truck driver $80,000 to settle sexual harassment case in US The US infrastructure arm of British contractor Balfour Beatty has agreed to pay $80,000 to a female truck driver who was the subject of a sexual harassment, hostile work environment…
News New York contractor jailed after ‘stringing customers along for years’ A builder in Niagara County, New York, has been sentenced to up to eight years in state prison after a three-year period in which he accepted deposits from homeowners but…
News Manager of China Railways subsidiary charged with accepting $250,000 bribe Hong Kong’s Independent Commission against Corruption (ICAC) yesterday charged a manager with China Railways 15th Bureau (CR15) with accepting a US$250,000 bribe from a subcontractor. Xu Wenju, 40, deputy general…
News Australian construction boss found guilty of fraud after six-month trial A Sydney construction boss and four others have been found guilty of a conspiracy to defraud Australia’s tax office of more than US$7.1m over two years. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation…