A Georgia man pleaded guilty to taking bribes as a government contractor in Afghanistan, after which he funneled reconstruction contracts to Afghan companies and falsified letters of recommendation for translators’ visa applications, the Justice Department announced.
In concert with an unnamed employee of an American company that evaluated bids for U.S. reconstruction contracts in Afghanistan, Orlando Clark took around $400,000 in bribes from an Afghan company in 2011 and 2012.
The Afghan company then received contracts worth millions of dollars.
As part of the scheme, Clark created fake companies and associated bank accounts in Georgia in order to process the bribe payments.