Police in Florida have arrested 16 men in a sting operation designed to detect contractors trading illegally. The sting was carried out in Manatee County over three days in April.…

A court in Vietnam sentenced property developer Truong My Lan, 67, to death last week after a five-week trial found her guilty of embezzling more than $12.5bn from Vietnam’s largest…

A French court yesterday rejected a claim of nearly €1.6bn in damages made by Vinci in relation to the cancellation of an airport project near Nantes, website BMF Business reports.…

A Chinese train-making company has withdrawn from a €610m Bulgarian tender after the European Commission opened a first-of-its-kind investigation into the company.  CRRC Qingdao Sifan, a subsidiary of the world’s…

Two South Carolina men have pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of executing a fraud scheme against the US. They face maximum sentences of 10 years in prison and…

Six people have been accused of running a construction safety training school in the US that issued certificates to some 20,000 students who did not undertake the 40 hours of…

Four executives in Oklahoma have pleaded guilty to rigging bids and fixing prices on more than $100m worth of public transportation infrastructure contracts in the state. Stanley Mark Smith, a…

The Department of Labour has helped 139 employees of a Guam-based contractor to recover $547,378 in back wages and liquidated damages. Ian Construction owed the workers $295,420 in back wages…

A male worker for the has been awarded $40,000 by the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration after a sex discrimination lawsuit found he was paid less than female…

US employers group the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) and its Louisiana chapter filed suit this week in federal court to block the Biden administration’s effort to mandate project…

A Florida woman has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the US and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). She has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison…

A construction firm in Long Island, New York pleaded guilty on Friday (5 January) to three criminal charges after a worker fell from a roof on the company’s own property…

An Orlando businessman will serve up to 30 months in prison for conspiracy to defraud the US government of $3.5m in tax revenue. Wendel Algarin was found guilty of aiding…

Confidence in China’s embattled property sector took another hit this month when a major Shanghai developer revealed it had filed a $1.38bn lawsuit against a steel company accusing it of…

US engineer Aecom has agreed to pay $11.8m to resolve allegations that it knowingly submitted false claims to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for the replacement of educational facilities…

A court in Vietnam has sentenced 22 people to prison terms of up to six years for malpractice and negligence in building a major expressway. It also fined five contractors…

Key takeaways from the case: This case – DNCF Ltd v Genus Homes Ltd [2023] IEHC 490 – shows that the Irish High Courts will not resist the enforcement of…

Three men working in the German construction industry have been jailed for a total of 14 years and one received a suspended sentence for defrauding the state out of tax…