Balfour Beatty are proud to be operating in over 80 different countries around the world. But they really shouldn’t be, given the way they’ve acted in a lot of them.
In 2004-2009 a company called Parsons Brinckerhof was hired by the Israeli government to oversee the construction of a railway line from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem for Israel Railways. The route they decided that the line should take crossed the ‘green line’ marking the legal border between Israel and Palestine twice into territories stolen from the Palestinian people and illegally occupied by Israel. Of course states and corporations alike only take notice of the ‘law’ when it hits them in the pocket.
In 2009 Balfour decided that this criminal corporation would be a welcome addition to its multinational operations and bought it out, meaning that the gains from this illegal project were funnelled into the parent company.
Not content with making enough money through dodgy deals, cutting corners and corruption, bosses at Balfour clearly think it’s okay to break international law and make money off one of the world’s biggest ever land-grabs.
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