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Chinese contractor execs accused of demanding cash for Bogota metro payments

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Colombian prosecutors are investigating allegations that executives from China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), a state-owned contractor, demanded cash payments from a local subcontractor. The accusations stem from a video showing a subcontractor handing over approximately $19,000 in cash to a CHEC manager. This payment was allegedly demanded to release overdue payments for work completed on the Bogotá metro project, South America's largest infrastructure undertaking. CHEC has denied wrongdoing, stating the money was a contractual retention payment related to a dispute over work quality. AI

RANK_REASON The cluster involves allegations of corruption against a major state-owned contractor on a significant infrastructure project. [lever_c_demoted from significant: ic=1 ai=0.0]

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Chinese contractor execs accused of demanding cash for Bogota metro payments

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Igor Patrick ·

    Chinese executive filmed taking cash on Colombia metro, South America’s biggest project

    Colombian prosecutors are investigating allegations that executives of a Chinese state-owned contractor building the Bogota metro demanded cash from a local subcontractor in exchange for releasing payments owed for work on the project, according to an investigation published over…

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