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Amec engineering consultancy, is to pay almost UK£ 5 million (€ 5,5 million) under a civil recovery order obtained by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) for taking "irregular receipts" worth UK£ 5,5 million (€ 6 million) associated with a project in which Amec is a shareholder.

A court in Munich, Germany has ruled that Wacker Neuson’s decision to dismiss chairman of its supervisory board, Johann Neunteufel was invalid.

Former New York building inspectors charged with soliciting bribes and other illegal activities as part of the Lucchese crime family.

UK Law firm Mace & Jones is warning employers of the dangers of overhead power cables.

Australian court hands down fines and bans to ten former directors and officers of Australia's James Hardie Industries.

Kazuhiko Takahara, the former deputy head of oversees business development at Japan's Nishimatsu Construction Company, has been given an 18 month prison sentence, suspended for four years.

It has come to ALLMI's attention that clarification is required with regard to the A2 amendment of EN12999

The Snamprogetti offices in Milan, Italy, were searched by authorities last Friday over on-going investigations into the bribery of Nigerian officials by the TSKJ consortium between 1994 and 2004.

The UK's Mabey and Johnson has pleaded guilty to ten charges of corruption relating to contracts in Jamaica, Ghana and Iraq.

The owners of the Al Bawadi Mall in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates (UAE) plan to ban construction labourers from the shopping centre following complaints of anti-social behaviour.

A former senior Beijing city government official has been jailed for life after accepting five apartments from development companies in return for helping with planning and construction permits.

An amendment to the EN 13000 Cranes - Mobile Cranes European standard for safe crane operation is expected by 2010

Environmental groups have applauded the Polish government's decision to save the country's Rospuda Valley in North-Eastern Poland, from destruction by the E67 road development.

Holcim has launched international arbitration proceedings against Venezuela, following the forced nationalisation of the country's cement industry in August.

Three un-named executives at Volvo Construction Equipment (VCE) have been charged with paying bribes to Saddam Hussein's government in a bid to overcome restrictions on trade under the United Nations' Oil-for-Food Programme.

Tokyo prosecutors investigating alleged slush funds set up by contractor Nishimatsu say the money may have been used for illegal political donations.

Impregilo's CEO could face five years in jail as consortium is fined € 150 million.

Czech Republic police are investigating alleged corruption in the awarding of 30 contracts by the country's Defence Ministry, according to the Czech News Agency (CTK).

Sibir has appointed solicitors and accountants to investigate the actual and proposed real estate dealings of Chalva Tchigirinski, a former company director and shareholder in Sibir who took an ‘advance’ from the company of US$ 325 million (€ 256 million) for the purchase of properties in his real estate portfolio.

Three senior staff at Dubai developer Nakheel's Waterfront project have been detained for questioning as part of a year-long fraud investigation.