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Government Contractor Pleads Guilty to Defrauding the Afghan Government of $100 Million
The owner of Assist Consultants Incorporated (ACI), an Afghan company that has received over $250 million in US-funded contracts since 2013, pleaded guilty to wire fraud for his role in an alleged scheme to defraud the government of Afghanistan of over $100 million. These funds were provided to Afghanistan by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for the purpose of constructing an electric grid in the country.
According to court documents, in July 2015, ACI submitted a bid to Afghanistan’s national power utility, Da’ Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS), for the construction of five electric power substations. In order to meet the requirement that bidders must have substantial experience building electric power substations, ACI falsely represented that it worked as a subcontractor to