A total of 2,000 billion was spent, with the bulk of US taxpayers’ money being spent on corruption, according to a Brown University research report.
WASHINGTON – The United States has spent 290 million a day on the 7300-day 20-year war in Afghanistan and national development, according to a report compiled by Brown University. I have been the report says the United States has spent more than 2000 billion in Afghanistan over the past 20 years. Became extremely wealthy Afghans Most of them started working as translators for the US military and became millionaires.
The US broadcaster CNBC, in its report on the results of the university, said that there was widespread corruption due to contractors, which engulfed the country and ultimately destroyed its fragile democracy. C said the United States had made all these efforts to rebuild Afghanistan, yet it took the Taliban only nine days to capture every provincial capital, disband the military and overthrow the US-backed government.
In a meeting with Pentagon Watchdog SIGAR, Ryan Crocker, a double-cross US minister to Afghanistan, accused post-9/11 defilement of the disappointment of the United States. Was. Many of the multi-millionaire Afghans began working as translators for the US military, and because of their loyalty, they were able to secure defense deals. One of them was Faheem Hashmi, an English teacher in Kabul who was hired by the US military. Fahim Hashmi later set up a company to supply equipment and fuel to military bases.
Fahim Hashmi is not shy about blaming corruption for overthrowing the Kabul government last month. He told US National Public Radio in 2013 that the main thing is that corruption is the biggest problem for us. I think corruption is not just a business. It is having a negative impact but also has a direct bearing on insecurity. Similarly, Hikmatullah Shadman was a translator for the US Army. After working as a translator for 5 years in 2007, he rented a truck and started supplying fuel and equipment to the US base. In 2009, his company paid Rs 40 million to the Department of Defense. Billed 5 million. Somewhere in the range of 2007 and 2012, his shipping organization got 167 million from US government contracts.
In 2012, the US Department of Justice accused Hikmatullah of paying bribes to US troops and Afghan government officials in exchange for contracts. . In 2014, the Netherlands-based Supreme Group pleaded guilty to fraud charges and agreed to pay 389 million in fines and damages, one of the largest penalties ever imposed on a defense contractor but this week. Most of the reports published at the end said that there were no reports of corruption or fraud in the contracting process in Afghanistan.
