SFO's Hawkins Construction probe ends without charges

SFO's Hawkins Construction probe ends without charges
Jan 22 (BusinessDesk) –The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has walked away from an investigation of Hawkins Construction while claiming there were some “unusual” aspects to contracts in a project for state-owned Transpower. The urgent investigation is now closed with no charges being laid. The SFO raided two offices New Zealand’s largest construction company last year in an investigation of Hawkins’ work on the $419 million upgrade of Transpower's Hobson Street substation in Auckland. “While the manner in which the parties conducted their busines...