2014

USAID Contractor Ex-Employee Arrested on Embezzlement Charges

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 development fund supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The money was insured, and there was no actual loss of U.S. taxpayer funds.

Former Employee of U.S. Contractor in Afghanistan Indicted for Bribery

A former employee of a U.S. contractor was indicted today in the Eastern District of Texas for allegedly soliciting and accepting bribes in exchange for his influence in awarding U.S. government-funded contracts in Afghanistan, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney John Malcolm Bales of the Eastern District of Texas.