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Document summary
1/18/2012 Contains incident reports of trafficking including allegations that:
- Two employees from a Turkish construction company operating at Bagram Air Field embezzled money meant to be used to feed and house laborers, and twenty Pakistani Christian workers were left stranded and told funds were only available for Muslims (Pages 172-176);
- A Swiss company operating in Afghanistan violated the Joint Contracting Command-Iraq/Afghanistan Prohibition on Human Trafficking, inhuman living conditions and withholding of employee passports clause, and falsified documents to overbill food costs (Pages 177-179);
- AAFES subcontractors were complicit in human trafficking and sexual abuse of Fijian TCNs (Page 188);
- A U.S. corporation and its subsidiary participated in smuggling and human trafficking, prostitution, hiding government property assets, fraud, waste, abuse, and illegal hiring practices during operations at Bagram Airfield around 2010 (Pages 193-201);
- Female employees at a military based in North Kai were subjected to inhuman living conditions (Pages 202-215);
- DynCorp employees were promised large salaries, but upon arrival in Afghanistan were forced to sign contracts for significantly lower pay (Pages 230-232).
Expanded summary: Expanded Summary DoD-IG 1.18.2012 release 2-1
FOIA docs: Documents DoD-IG 1.18.2012 release 2-2
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