{
  "id": 98314,
  "title": "Chinese executive filmed taking cash on Colombia metro, South America’s biggest project",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/03/chinese-executive-filmed-taking-cash-on-colombia-metro-south-americas-98314",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-03T19:16:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3362846/chinese-executive-filmed-taking-cash-colombia-metro-south-americas-biggest-project"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Colombian prosecutors are investigating allegations that executives of a Chinese state-owned contractor building the Bogota metro demanded cash from a local subcontractor in exchange for releasing payments owed for work on the project, according to an investigation published over the weekend by Semana, the country’s leading news magazine. The consortium building the line has denied any…",
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        "outlet": "Reuters Business via SCMP",
        "title": "Chinese executive filmed taking cash on Colombia metro, South America’s biggest project",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/03/chinese-executive-filmed-taking-cash-on-colombia-metro-south-americas",
        "published": "2026-08-03T19:16:31.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}