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Thursday, January 21, 2010
Sawiris
Ziyad sent me this: "According the Center for Public Integrity, the Sawiris'es Contrack International ranked 8th in total value of contracts awarded in Iraq & Afghanistan between 2002 and 2004. "From 1990 to 2002, Contrack was awarded 27 contracts with the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and one contract with the State Department. The total value of the work, which was performed in such countries as Bahrain, Egypt, Qatar and Russia, was nearly $468 million". However Naguib's largest company is Orascom Telecom which incidentally manages the alfa network in Lebanon. While Nassef's is Orascom Construction Industries".