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From 2006 until 2014 I worked at a company, Foster Wheeler. What I did not know at the time, but found out later, was that Foster Wheeler was a very corrupt company.
Because Foster Wheeler was having financial difficulties it was sold to Amec about the time I left the company in 2014. It was a huge mistake for Amec to purchase Foster Wheeler, so much so that the board lost faith in the CEO at the time, Samir Brikho, and asked him to leave.
Amec Foster Wheeler was eventually sold to the Wood Group and that is the nature of the business at the time of this writing. Just this morning someone who I knew at Foster Wheeler posted something on LinkedIn that Wood Group is recruiting. I did not respond to her post but, if I did, it would not have been positive.
Just so the reader knows, the corruption in Foster Wheeler was rampant, and that is why it was sold to Amec and then to Wood.
I would like to draw the reader to a few articles that appear on the internet about Foster Wheeler:-
- On 25 June 2021 the US Office of Public Affairs submitted a press release, “Amec Foster Wheeler Energy Limited agrees to pay over $18 million to resolve charges related to bribery scheme in Brazil”.
- On 21 February 2022 the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) put…