The African Development Bank Group today announces the 12-month debarment and the payment of restitution by Jiangxi Transportation Engineering Group Limited, an engineering construction company registered in the Peoples' Republic of China.
An investigation conducted by the Office of Integrity and Anti-Corruption of the African Development Bank Group established that Jiangxi Transportation Engineering Group Limited committed Fraudulent Practices during the implementation of the contract for the dualisation of Kenol-Sagana (A2) Road, part of the Bank-funded Kenol-Sagana-Marua Highway Improvement Project, in the Republic of Kenya.
The Kenol-Sagana-Marua Highway Improvement Project is an African Development Bank Group-financed project and is part of the Kenyan section of the Trans-Africa Highway, TAH4, which stretches from Cairo to Cape Town. The Kenyan section runs from Mombasa to Nairobi and onwards to Moyale near the border with Ethiopia, passing through major commercial and agricultural counties.
During the debarment period, Jiangxi Transportation Engineering Group Limited and all entities under the company's control will not be eligible to participate in African Development Bank Group-financed activities.
Jiangxi Transportation Engineering Group Limited is required to continue implementing the integrity compliance program it has initiated and to submit periodic progress reports to the African Development Bank Group. It is also required to fully repay to the Bank Group all payments it received as a result of the fraudulent misrepresentations.
About the Office of Integrity and Anti-Corruption
The Office of Integrity and Anti-Corruption of the African Development Bank Group is responsible for preventing, deterring and investigating allegations of corruption, fraud and other sanctionable practices in Bank Group-financed operations.
For more information visit https://www.afdb.org/en/about-us/organisational-structure/integrity-and-anti-corruption/
African Development Bank staff and the public can use secured channels of the Office of Integrity and Anti-Corruption to report sanctionable practices within the Bank or in operations financed by the Bank Group.
Secured telephone: +1 (770) 776-5658
Whistleblowing: [email protected]
Secured email address: [email protected]
Mail correspondence should be marked "CONFIDENTIAL" and sent to:
African Development Bank
Office of Integrity and Anti-Corruption (PIAC)
Immeuble du Centre de commerce International d'Abidjan (CCIA)
Avenue Jean-Paul II
01 BP 1387
Abidjan 01, Côte d'Ivoire
