Inspectors Fear Millions In Gas Money Getting Siphoned Off In Afghanistan -- McClatchy News
The United States is giving Afghan security forces $1.4 billion to buy gasoline through 2018 despite evidence that some of the money has been siphoned off in the face of a continuing high risk of fraud and waste.
That's one of the core findings of a new report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), which Congress created in 2008 to help track the nearly $100 billion the United States has spent on rebuilding the war-torn country in South Asia.
"Poor oversight and documentation of blanket purchase agreements and fuel purchases resulted in the use of higher-priced vendors and questionable costs to the U.S. government," SIGAR found in a report released Wednesday.
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Update: Report: US military in Afghanistan had little oversight of millions spent on fuel -- Stars and Stripes
My Comment: Another corruption story from Afghanistan .... and in the meantime U.S. troops in Afghanistan are now only getting two hot meals a day.
