Testimony from executives of the construction and engineering firms Andrade Gutierrez and Carioca Engenharia was the basis of Thursday's arrests, prosecutors said.
Hundreds of people have been arrested for their alleged involvement in bribery schemes operated out of the state-owned oil company, Petrobras, by executives of the construction giant Odebrecht, and at several other major Brazilian firms.
Frustrated Lower Manhattan residents and city officials confronted executives of the construction company overseeing the demolition of the Deutsche Bank building at a packed two-hour meeting last night.
Graham Watts, chief executive of the construction industry council, told MPs on the cross-party children, schools and families select committee that the industry was facing a massive slump.
Still, it was all getting heated enough that Ian Tyler, the former chief executive of the construction group Balfour Beatty, joked with The Independent that he was relieved not to be asked to stand up when he was named as an incoming non-executive director.
Mr Karrubi claimed that over half of his party's hopefuls had been barred, including senior figures such as Sadegh Javadi-Hesar the party's head in Khorasan-Razavi province, Ahmad Jamali in Fars province and Fereydoon Allahyari in Isfahan province.Kargozaran (Executives of Construction), the group led by the former president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, was also affected, though less severely.
Nor did the company specifically explain in a brief statement released on Thursday night why it had fired the two executives, Riadh Ben Aïssa, a Tunisian-born Canadian who was executive vice president of the construction and infrastructure division, and Stéphane Roy, the vice president of finance for that unit.
SINGAPORE — Tomoyoshi Tsuchiya, chairman and chief executive of the Japanese construction company Tsuchiya Gumi, regularly uses one of the company's two Gulfstream jets for business trips.
"We always considered the United States to be a closed market, but the political climate is right to look for American partners," said Manuel Contreras, chief executive of the AZVI construction company, which operates in Chile.
Mr. Lee, a former chief executive of the Hyundai construction company who is nicknamed the Bulldozer for his penchant for colossal engineering schemes, aims at nothing less than rethinking the ecology and economy of the rivers, some of which were heavily polluted during the country's rapid industrialization.
Her parents, the late Elizabeth and Charles W. Danis Sr., lived in Dayton, Ohio, where her father was the chairman and chief executive of the Danis Building Construction Company.
