Saturday, November 23, 2013

USAID programs hit by fraud, corruption and bid-rigging allegations

“Foreign aid is notoriously corrupt,” Fitton said. “The surprise is that anyone is surprised by this anymore. Twenty percent of aid is lost. If this happened in the private sector, (the program) would have been shut down.”
In September, the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction charged that millions of U.S. dollars were being wasted on public health programs that were at risk “of waste, fraud and abuse.

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