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Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John F. Sopko announced today that Saed Ismail Amiri, of Granite Bay, California, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for his role in a scheme to defraud the government of Afghanistan of more than $100 million in a contract designed to construct an electric grid in that war-torn country.
Court documents describe Amiri, 38, as owner or senior consultant of Assist Consultants Incorporated (ACI), an Afghan company that had received more than $250 million in U.S.- funded contracts in Afghanistan since 2013. Amiri pleaded guilty to wire fraud in a SIGAR-led case centered on U.S.-funded efforts to construct five electric power substations to connect Afghanistan’s Northeastern and Southeastern electric grid systems.