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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
US Man Guilty in $100M Afghanistan Fraud Scheme: AP
A California man pleaded guilty Tuesday in a scheme to bilk the Afghanistan government out of more than $100 million with a phony bid to build an electric grid, authorities said.
Saed Ismail Amiri, 38, of Granite Bay, entered a plea in Los Angeles federal court to one count of wire fraud, the U.S. attorney s office said in a statement.
He could face up to 20 years in prison when he is sentenced in August.
The scheme involved Amiri s Afghan company, Assist Consultants Incorporated, federal prosecutors said.
In 2015 and 2016, Amiri and others tried to win a U.S.-funded contract to build five electric power substations in Afghanistan by submitting a false work history and phony supporting documents indicating the firm met requirements for the contract, prosecutors said.
A California man who attempted to cheat the Afghan government out of more than $100 million has pleaded guilty to fraud in a Los Angeles federal court, the Justice Department said.
29 Apr 2021 - 11:24
KABUL (Pajhwok): A California man has pleaded guilty in a scheme to defraud the Afghan government of more than $100 million in a contract designed to construct a power grid in the country.
Saed Ismail Amiri, 38, of Granite Bay, entered a plea in Los Angeles federal court to one count of wire fraud, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) announced.
Court documents describe Amiri, 38, as owner or senior consultant of Assist Consultants Incorporated (ACI), an Afghan company that had received over $250 million in US- funded contracts in Afghanistan since 2013.
Amiri pleaded guilty to wire fraud in a SIGAR-led case centered on US-funded efforts to construct five electric power substations to connect Afghanistan’s Northeastern and Southeastern electric grid systems.
California man guilty in $100M Afghanistan fraud scheme
April 28, 2021
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LOS ANGELES (AP) A California man pleaded guilty Tuesday in a scheme to bilk the Afghanistan government out of more than $100 million with a phony bid to build an electric grid, authorities said.
Saed Ismail Amiri, 38, of Granite Bay, entered a plea in Los Angeles federal court to one count of wire fraud, the U.S. attorney s office said in a statement.
He could face up to 20 years in prison when he is sentenced in August.
The scheme involved Amiri s Afghan company, Assist Consultants Incorporated, federal prosecutors said.
In 2015 and 2016, Amiri and others tried to win a U.S.-funded contract to build five electric power substations in Afghanistan by submitting a false work history and phony supporting documents indicating the firm met requirements for the contract, prosecutors said.