Pentagon Confirms It Gave $1.4 Billion In No-Bid Fuel Contracts To Mysterious Companies
The Pentagon's main supply agency has acknowledged awarding $1.4 billion in no-bid contracts to two foreign companies whose ownership and management seem extremely mysterious. The contracts, involving delivery of aviation fuel to U.S.-run air bases in Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan, are currently under investigation by a subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, one of Congress's most powerful panels. Among other things, the subcommittee is examining allegations by human-rights activists and others that the companies are connected to the families of two former Kyrgyz leaders who were toppled in the past several years amid allegations of corruption...
