SIGAR
Recent Criminal Cases
| Subject | Action | Investigative Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Gary Canteen | Sentenced January 19, 2012 |
Canteen, a former U.S. Army sergeant major, was sentenced by a U.S. District Court to 31 months in prison for his role in a $50,000 bribery scheme involving a multimillion-dollar trucking contract at Bagram Airfield. SIGAR participated in this ICCTF investigation. |
| Charles Finch | Sentenced January 19, 2012 |
Finch, a former U.S. Army sergeant, was sentenced by a U.S. District Court to 51 months in prison for his role in a $50,000 bribery scheme involving a multimillion-dollar trucking contract at Bagram Airfield. SIGAR participated in this ICCTF investigation. |
| Christopher P. West | Sentenced December 20, 2011 |
West, a former U.S. Army National Guard major, was sentenced by a U.S. District Court to 60 months in prison for soliciting and receiving bribes from contractors in exchange for falsely certifying the receipt of concrete bunkers and barriers never delivered to Bagram Airfield. SIGAR participated in the investigation with CID, DCIS, Air Force, and OSI. |
| Desi Wade | Sentenced March 28, 2012 |
Wade, a former DoD employee who served as the Chief of Fire and Emergency Services with U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, was sentenced to 20 months in prison for his role in soliciting and accepting bribe payments of more than $99,000 in exchange for steering DoD contracts to contractors in Afghanistan. This was an ICCTF investigation, supported by SIGAR. |
| Neil Patrick Campbell | Sentenced December 20, 2011 Recovery $10,000 |
Campbell, an Australian national and former senior construction manager for a non-governmental organization in Afghanistan, was sentenced by a U.S. District Court to 22 months in prison for soliciting $190,000 in bribes as payment for steering $15 million in U.S.-funded contracts in Afghanistan. Campbell received an initial $10,000 payment from an undercover officer and was arrested in India while attempting to collect the remaining bribe payments. This ICCTF investigation was conducted by USAID-OIG, FBI, and SIGAR. |
| Philip Wooten | Guilty Plea December 13, 2011 |
Wooten, a former U.S. Army staff sergeant, plead guilty in U.S. District Court to stealing U.S.funds intended for Afghanistan reconstruction. Wooten awaits sentencing. SIGAR initiated case worked closely with FBI and Postal Inspection Service investigators. |
| John Mihalczo | Sentenced December 12, 2011 Recovery $115,000 |
Mihalczo, a former U.S. Army National Guard captain, was sentenced by a U.S. District Court to 15 months in prison for taking bribes from military contractors in return for awarding DoD contracts while assigned to Bagram Airfield. SIGAR participated in the investigation with CID and OSI investigators. |
| Siddarth Handa | Sentenced September 23, 2011 Restitution of $315,000 |
Handa was sentenced by a U.S. District Court to 120 months in prison and required to make restitution of $315,000. He was arrested on April 7, 2011, and pleaded guilty on June 21, 2011, to bribery of a public official and conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. SIGAR received the initial information and was significantly involved in this ICCTF investigation. |
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