Published: December 06, 2018
FOI documents show government was advised to withhold details unless claims about Sinclair Knight Merz became public
Australian ministers knew one of the government’s biggest foreign aid contractors was mired in allegations of widespread corruption but withheld the information from the public and continue giving the company work, internal documents show.
Earlier this year, Guardian Australia revealed evidence that Australian firm Sinclair Knight Merz had repeatedly bribed government officials in Vietnam and the Philippines to secure work on aid projects funded by the World Bank and Asian Development Bank.
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