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  1. South African Doctor Took Over $200,000 Meant to Promote Safer Childbirth

    WASHINGTON – Eugene Sickle, the former deputy executive director of a South African research institute, was sentenced today to seven months of incarceration and…

  2. Defendant Admits Providing Sensitive Documents to Friend Whom She Selected for Health Care Project  

    WASHINGTON – BethAnne Moskov, a deputy director for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), pled guilty today to…

  3. Alexandria, VA — Pax Mondial LLC, doing business as Mondial Risk Management Company (MRMC), agreed to pay the United States $44,000 to settle civil fraud claims that it illegally exported firearms accessories from the United States to Afghanistan…

  4. The money was insured; there was no actual loss of U.S. taxpayer funds

    KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – Afghan police working with American agents arrested an Afghan man on charges of stealing more than a half million dollars from an agricultural…

  5. KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – A former contractor for a recently completed U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) project in Afghanistan has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison and a $9,500 fine.

    Noor Anwarzai, 36, was…

  6. KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – Two former contractors on a recently completed U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) project in Afghanistan have been arrested on fraud charges. The action came as part of what U.S. Government officials described…

  7. KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – The Afghan Special Anti-Corruption Tribunal Court sentenced Din Mohammad Ramin, a former employee on a project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), to three years in prison and a $10,000…

  8. WASHINGTON - Harbert Corporation, Harbert International, Inc., Bill Harbert International Constructions Inc., Harbert Construction Services (U.K.) Ltd. and Bilhar International Establishment have agreed to pay the United States $47 million to…

  9. Kabul, Afghanistan – On Sunday, December 18, 2011, Din Mohammad Ramin, 26, was arrested on bribery charges in Kabul. The arrest was carried out by the Afghan National Police and by investigators from the Afghan Attorney General’s Anti-Corruption…

  10. WASHINGTON – The Academy for Educational Development (AED) in Washington, D.C., has agreed to settle allegations that the company submitted false claims to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in connection with two…

  11. Washington, DC – On April 29, 2011, Abdul Ghaffar Adib was found guilty and sentenced to 1½ years in prison by a local Afghan court after child pornography was found on his work computer. Adib, who was an employee of DAI, (formerly known as…

  12. WASHINGTON – Two former humanitarian aid workers were each sentenced today to 142 months in prison for defrauding the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) of roughly $1.9 million that was meant to assist impoverished people and towns…

  13. Washington, DC – Ahman Samim Sediqi of Kabul, Afghanistan, was tried and sentenced in a local Afghan court on forgery and embezzlement charges stemming from his work on a development project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development…

  14. David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that THE MORGANTI GROUP, INC., of Danbury, Connecticut, has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the Government in which it will pay $800,000 to…

  15. Washington, D.C. - This week in Kabul, Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI) terminated 10 employees including several engineers and other staff members after months of investigation. DAI Afghanistan is a contractor with the U.S. Agency for…

  16. WASHINGTON, DC - Last week in Kabul Ahman Samim Sediqi, an Afghan citizen working on a community development project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), was arrested by Afghan law enforcement authorities, announced…

  17. WASHINGTON - An Oklahoma man pleaded guilty today for his role in a scheme to solicit a kickback in connection with the award of a private security services subcontract to protect U.S. government personnel and contractors in Afghanistan,…

  18. WASHINGTON -    An Oklahoma man pleaded guilty today for his role in a scheme to solicit kickbacks in connection with the award of a private security .se rvices subcontract to protect U.S. government personnel and contractors in…

  19. Khadija Elaine Walker has 23 years of Federal oversight experience—1½ years at the USAID Office of Inspector General (OIG) and 21½ years at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) OIG. As Deputy Assistant Inspector General at USAID OIG, Ms…