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The company operates through various subsidiaries, including CRBD and CHED, John Holland Group, an Australia-based construction company focused on infrastructure, Friede & Goldman, headquartered in Houston, which engineers offshore vessels for the oil and gas industry, and Concremat Engenharia e Tecnologia S.A., an engineering and infrastructure consultancy based in Brasil. [7]

CCCC is a major contractor in the Belt and Road Initiative. [1] [2] CCCC is involved in dredging projects in disputed areas in the South China Sea, highway-building in Xinjiang, and building naval logistics installations at Gwadar Port. [8] [9] [10] [11]

Misconduct

CCCC has been implicated in misconduct including fraud and corruption in Bangladesh, Equatorial Guinea, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Penalties included debarment by the World Bank and the Bangladesh government. [2] [12]

Bangladesh

In early 2018, CCCC subsidiary, China Harbour Engineering Company, was debarred for attempted bribery of a senior government official in relation to a contract for the expansion of the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway. Finance Minister AMA Muhith said: “[The expansion of] Dhaka-Sylhet Highway, somehow, we had to drop it. Because, the party who got the contract, they came up, in the very beginning, with offer of bribe, open bribe.

So, we gave the money, which they gave to some of our officials, back to the Chinese embassy and naturally blacklisted the company.” [13] [14] [15] [16]

Equatorial Guinea

An investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice alleged that, in 2009, CCCC paid US$19 million to Teodorin Obiang, Vice President of Equatorial Guinea, in relation to a contract for a highway. [17] Teodorin Obiang settled settled the case, agreeing to forfeit over US$30 million worth of U.S. assets. [18]

Malaysia

CCCC has been implicated in schemes devised by ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak and advisor Low Taek Jho to bail out debts related to 1MDB. The Malaysian government agreed with CCCC to construct an East Coast Railway line for RM60 billion. Government documents revealed that the contract required CCCC to buy shares of companies related to Low, specifically, 70 per cent of Putrajaya Perdana Bhd for US$244 million (RM957 million) and 90 per cent of Loh & Loh for US$71 million (RM283 million). [19] [20] However, these allegations were denied by Malaysia Rail Link Sdn Bhd, the owner of the railway project. [21]

Yet, in September 2019, during Najib's trial for corruption in relation to 1MDB, his previous assistant, Amhari Effendi Nazaruddin, testified that he traveled to Beijing China in June 2016 to discuss proposals for infrastructure projects that would help to pay off the debts of 1MDB and its former unit, SRC International. [22] [23] The briefing points for the Beijing meeting stressed that "while simultaneously completely resolving 1MDB and SRC debts". [22] [24] Amhari testified to his unease about the Beijing mission, "I was worried about being involved directly in Najib and Low Taek Jho’s plan to cover up the loss of 1MDB funds and the repayment of International Petroleum Investment Co (IPIC) debts or the preparation of political funds”. [25]

In March 2023, a court in Kuwait convicted Jho Low and others of money laundering. Trial documents revealed the flow of funds from CCCC through two Hong Kong subsidiaries, Multi Strategic Investment Limited and True Dragon Properties Limited, to Kuwait entities. The funds were proceeds of loans by the Export-Import Bank of China to finance the East Coast Railway. [26] [27]

Philippines

In 2009, the World Bank Group debarred CCCC and CRBC until 2017 for fraudulent practices under Phase 1 of the Philippines National Roads Improvement and Management Project. [2] [12] [28] Together with five other companies, CCCC and CRBC had colluded to enter non-competitive, artificially high bid prices. [29]

U.S. sanctions

In August 2020, the United States Department of Commerce placed several CCCC subsidiaries on the Bureau of Industry and Security's Entity List for their construction work to militarize artificial islands in the South China Sea. [30] [31] [32] The same month, the United States Department of Defense released the names of additional “Communist Chinese military companies” operating directly or indirectly in the United States. CCCC was included on the list. [33] [34] In November 2020, Donald Trump issued an executive order prohibiting any American company or individuals from owning shares in companies, including CCCC, that the U.S. Department of Defense has listed as having links to the People's Liberation Army. [35] [36] In December 2020, the United States Department of Commerce added CCCC itself to the Entity List. [37]

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China Communications Construction
Native name
中国交通建设 (Chinese)
Company typeState-owned enterprise
IndustryEngineering and Construction
Founded2005
Headquarters85 De Sheng Men Wai Street, Xicheng District,
Beijing
,
People's Republic of China
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
  • Liu Qitao, Chairman
  • Song HaiLiang, President
  • Peng Bihong, Chief Financial Officer
Owner State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (63.8%)
Subsidiaries China Road and Bridge Corporation
China Harbour Engineering Company
John Holland Group
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese 中国交通建设股份有限公司
Traditional Chinese 中國交通建設股份有限公司
Construction/engineering
Design/consulting
Building materials
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