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Mar 27, 12:59 pm, topse...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 22-Year-Old Efraim Diveroli, Awarded $300 Million Defense Contract
> To
> Arm Afghan Forces, Supplied Them With Aging, Defective Arms
> New York Times | C. J. Chivers, Eric Schmitt, Nicholas Wood and Mr.
> Chivers | March 27, 2008 11:20 AM
>
> Since 2006, when the insurgency in Afghanistan sharply intensified,
> the Afghan government has been dependent on American logistics and
> military sup****t in the war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
>
> But to arm the Afghan forces that it hopes will lead this fight, the
> American military has relied since early last year on a fledgling
> company led by a 22-year-old man whose vice president was a licensed
> masseur.
>
> With the award last January of a federal contract worth as much as
> nearly $300 million, the company, AEY Inc., which operates out of an
> unmarked office in Miami Beach, became the main supplier of
> munitions
> to Afghanistan's army and police forces.
>
> Since then, the company has provided ammunition that is more than 40
> years old and in decomposing packaging, according to an examination
> of
> the munitions by The New York Times and interviews with American and
> Afghan officials. Much of the ammunition comes from the aging
> stockpiles of the old Communist bloc, including stockpiles that the
> State Department and NATO have determined to be unreliable and
> obsolete, and have spent millions of dollars to have destroyed.
>
> In purchasing munitions, the contractor has also worked with
> middlemen
> and a shell company on a federal list of entities suspected of
> illegal
> arms trafficking.
>
> Moreover, tens of millions of the rifle and machine-gun cartridges
> were manufactured in China, making their procurement a possible
> violation of American law. The company's president, Efraim E.
> Diveroli, was also secretly recorded in a conversation that
> suggested
> corruption in his company's purchase of more than 100 million aging
> rounds in Albania, according to audio files of the conversation.
TJ, Mexico has nothing on us when it comes to corruption!
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