The US Air Force Suspension and Debarment
Official debarred Abdul Masould Walizada based on his offers to prepare
fabricated customs of documents for goods shipped into Afghanistan from
Iran.
As the result of a joint investigation by SIGAR (Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction) , the Department of State Inspector General and the ICCTF, the Air Force Suspension and Debarment Official debarred Abdul Masould Walizada based on his offers to prepare fabricated customs of documents for goods shipped into Afghanistan from Iran.
Walizada, a government employee working in the Surface Deployment and Distribution Command’s office at the U.S. Embassy Kabul, had been previously identified as having accepted bribes to prepare paperwork that identified shipments into Afghanistan as destined for use by the U.S. military and therefore exempt from Afghan customs duties.
Walizada was subsequently contacted by undercover investigators seeking assistance in shipping goods into Afghanistan and he offered to not only prepare the fictitious customs paperwork but to assist in shipping the goods through Iran, in violation of U.S. law. Walizada was subsequently terminated from his employment at the embassy, his special immigrant visa was terminated and he was debarred for a period of three years, ending on August 21, 2017.
Source: US Department of State