AZ Corporation is a construction firm in
Afghanistan
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AZ Corporation received construction and transport contracts with
NATO
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and the
United States Department of Defense
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On August 25, 2008, one man described as the owners of AZ Corporation,
Tahir Ramin, joint citizen of Afghanistan and the
United States
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was tricked into traveling to the United States with five other Afghan men connected with construction contracts at the
Bagram Air Base
Bagram Airfield-BAF, also known as Bagram Air Base , is located southeast of Charikar in the Parwan Province of Afghanistan. It is under the Afghan Ministry of Defense. Sitting on the site of the ancient town of Bagram at an elevation of a ...
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{{cite news
, url = http://justice.gov/opa/pr/2008/August/08-at-756.html
, title = Five Individuals Arrested, Two Contracting Companies Charged in Bribery Conspiracy Related to Department of Defense Contracts in Afghanistan
, publisher = ]United States Department of Justice
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a United States federal executive departments, federal executive department of the U.S. government that oversees the domestic enforcement of Law of the Unite ...
, date = 2008-08-28
, archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20091202092232/http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2008/August/08-at-756.html
, archivedate = 2009-12-02
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The man was detained on charges he had bribed GIs to secure contracts at the base.
Publicly filed figures state AZ Corporation received its first contracts with the DoD, worth $14,566,865, in 2007 and 2008.
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The GIs the Ramin is accused of bribing served in Afghanistan in 2004 and 2005.][
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References
Construction and civil engineering companies of Afghanistan