Chinese construction firm set to undertake infrastructure projects in Phils under Duterte's has a Fraud and Corruption History
Chinese construction firm set to undertake infrastructure projects in Phils under Duterte's deals from China, is currently under a World Bank blacklist for corruption submitted by reddit user gradenko_2000.
There are legit news that confirm this Chinese firm has a Fraud and Corruption.
This are infrastructure projects in Phils under Duterte's deals
In a report of GMA News in Jan 15, 2009:
Washington-based World Bank on Thursday said it has found evidence of bid-rigging in a Philippine road project involving several Chinese and local construction companies and has decided to bar them from future contracts.
The INT investigation uncovered evidence of a major cartel involving local and international firms bidding on contracts under phase one of the Philippines National Roads Improvement and Management Program, known as NRIMP 1. INT closely analyzed the procurement process the firms participated in and conducted numerous interviews before closing the investigations and initiating sanctions proceedings against the entities.
China Road and Bridge Corp. was debarred for eight years. The debarment can be reduced or terminated after five years if the firm puts in place a compliance program satisfactory to the World Bank.
In another report of PCIJ Feb 13, 2009:
ORRUPTED TO the core, and entirely, by a “cartel” of kickback-takers with support from the highest levels of the Philippine government.
In gist, this is the damning conclusion of the World Bank’s anti-corruption unit, the powerful and dreaded Department of Institutional Integrity (INT) regarding the Bank-funded National Road Improvement and Management Project-1 (NRIMP-1).
According to the INT, “the entire NRIMP-1 Project has been corrupted,” and had put “at least $30-45 million of the entire $150-million loan at risk,” or lost to “a cartel” of contractors, bureaucrats, politicians. Two witnesses said bribes were also “shared” with “relevant local media and nongovernment organizations…to avoid bad publicity.”
The cartel has been “institutionalized and has operated with impunity for at least a decade, possibly longer,” on account of the “systemic corruption and bid rigging” in the Philippine public works sector.
Thirteen of the 17 firms were put under the category of respondents who “either refused to cooperate with the Bank’s investigation or affirmatively misled the INT.”
China Road & Bridge Corp, a state-owned firm based in Hong Kong;
The Independent also reported in Jun 17 2016:
China Harbour Engineering company accused of fraud, corruption.
Government awarded the tender for the controversial dualisation of the US$2 billion Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu highway to dodgy companies amid revelations that the contractor China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd (CHEC) was blacklisted by the World Bank for fraud and corruption, while the financier Geiger International specialises in military equipment not construction works.
In Jun 6, 2016 Source. Co reported the Chinese Firme banned by World Bank for Curuption:
HARARE, June 6 (The Source) – The company that won a lucrative $2 billion contract for the construction of Zimbabwe’s most important highway is under a World Bank ban for tender rigging and fraud.
Zimbabwe recently named Chinese firm China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd (CHEC) as the main contractor of the Beitbridge-Chirundu highway dualisation project. An Austrian firm based in China, Geiger International, was named as the financier of the project.
However, according to a World Bank listing of firms that are ineligible for contracts that it finances, state-owned China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) Limited, CHEC’s parent company, is banned until 2017. According to the World Bank, companies that it places on its blacklist would have been found in violation of its “fraud and corruption policy”.
The World Bank banned CCCC after another of its subsidiaries was accused of “collusive practices” on a World Bank-funded road tender in the Philippines. The subsidiary was involved in further bribery and corruption allegations in the Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Bangladesh and Uganda.
Source: Reddit
There are legit news that confirm this Chinese firm has a Fraud and Corruption.
This are infrastructure projects in Phils under Duterte's deals
- Subic-Clark railway project by Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) and China Harbour Engineering Co.
- Transportation and logistics infrastructure at Sangley Point by Cavitex Holdings, International Container Terminal Services Inc. and China Harbour Engineering
- Davao coastline and port development project by Mega Harbor Port and Development and China Harbour Engineering
- Manila Harbour Center reclamation by R-II Builders Inc. and China Harbour Engineering
- Cebu International and Bulk Terminal project by Mega Harbour Port and CCCC Dredging Company
In a report of GMA News in Jan 15, 2009:
Washington-based World Bank on Thursday said it has found evidence of bid-rigging in a Philippine road project involving several Chinese and local construction companies and has decided to bar them from future contracts.
The INT investigation uncovered evidence of a major cartel involving local and international firms bidding on contracts under phase one of the Philippines National Roads Improvement and Management Program, known as NRIMP 1. INT closely analyzed the procurement process the firms participated in and conducted numerous interviews before closing the investigations and initiating sanctions proceedings against the entities.
China Road and Bridge Corp. was debarred for eight years. The debarment can be reduced or terminated after five years if the firm puts in place a compliance program satisfactory to the World Bank.
In another report of PCIJ Feb 13, 2009:
ORRUPTED TO the core, and entirely, by a “cartel” of kickback-takers with support from the highest levels of the Philippine government.
In gist, this is the damning conclusion of the World Bank’s anti-corruption unit, the powerful and dreaded Department of Institutional Integrity (INT) regarding the Bank-funded National Road Improvement and Management Project-1 (NRIMP-1).
According to the INT, “the entire NRIMP-1 Project has been corrupted,” and had put “at least $30-45 million of the entire $150-million loan at risk,” or lost to “a cartel” of contractors, bureaucrats, politicians. Two witnesses said bribes were also “shared” with “relevant local media and nongovernment organizations…to avoid bad publicity.”
The cartel has been “institutionalized and has operated with impunity for at least a decade, possibly longer,” on account of the “systemic corruption and bid rigging” in the Philippine public works sector.
Thirteen of the 17 firms were put under the category of respondents who “either refused to cooperate with the Bank’s investigation or affirmatively misled the INT.”
China Road & Bridge Corp, a state-owned firm based in Hong Kong;
The Independent also reported in Jun 17 2016:
China Harbour Engineering company accused of fraud, corruption.
Government awarded the tender for the controversial dualisation of the US$2 billion Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu highway to dodgy companies amid revelations that the contractor China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd (CHEC) was blacklisted by the World Bank for fraud and corruption, while the financier Geiger International specialises in military equipment not construction works.
In Jun 6, 2016 Source. Co reported the Chinese Firme banned by World Bank for Curuption:
HARARE, June 6 (The Source) – The company that won a lucrative $2 billion contract for the construction of Zimbabwe’s most important highway is under a World Bank ban for tender rigging and fraud.
Zimbabwe recently named Chinese firm China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd (CHEC) as the main contractor of the Beitbridge-Chirundu highway dualisation project. An Austrian firm based in China, Geiger International, was named as the financier of the project.
However, according to a World Bank listing of firms that are ineligible for contracts that it finances, state-owned China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) Limited, CHEC’s parent company, is banned until 2017. According to the World Bank, companies that it places on its blacklist would have been found in violation of its “fraud and corruption policy”.
The World Bank banned CCCC after another of its subsidiaries was accused of “collusive practices” on a World Bank-funded road tender in the Philippines. The subsidiary was involved in further bribery and corruption allegations in the Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Bangladesh and Uganda.
Source: Reddit
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