By Tom Ichniowski – Engineering News-Record

Five Harbert construction companies, most of which reportedly are defunct, have agreed to pay $47 million to the U.S. government to settle allegations of bid-rigging on a U.S. Agency for International Development-funded sewer system project in Egypt built more than 15 years ago, the Justice Dept. said.

The Justice Dept. said on March 20 that Harbert Corp., Harbert International Inc., Bill Harbert International Constructions Inc., Harbert Construction Services (U.K.) Ltd. and Bilhar International Establishment agreed to make the payment to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that they conspired to rig bids on a project in Cairo.

The sewer system project went to bid and was constructed in the late 1980s and early 1990s, according to the Justice Dept.

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