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emission free clinic asian free in-store charges free coming from and free is free. to types free. download free broadcast clothing video for your media projects a free meal down to our teeth on time. the anti-drug official never attempted to find out how those quick fortunes were made. so who could do it. why not the anti-corruption commission. it was led by a childhood friend of president karzai. a few months ago in september two thousand and eight the commission was dissolved when something went very wrong this was.

such a selfish. empty. so basically people. beginning to. force heartland sell for people to calling in case they felt they see something going on in a venue asking people for pride and it was the telephone good fight ensued. this is a number that are the numbers which we have imaginary production. of the cases to the flags which is not sure you see them. oddly enough the commission never investigated the sheer poor district. you must think this. is. going. to charge here because he's

trespassing palace this was their fault and has been built by people to the majority of people. the people they were working in the administration office and this young mr is a state that supposes that they were the generator was. probably that your body our head newt should be poorer than he was off to them touching it and just making it like. a skid put out a fit. the chief untouchable had to leave his post to precipitously. according to the american press was he spent three years in jail in the united states because of some shady business. see the receipt for jury duty it's all executive officer again if i had a pack of either crops are america or any any are about france and where else are you sure it's a moment ago during the murky water that's the only time about this question once

upon a time when i was an american and in say eighty four eighty five i wonder vacation with some friends and other people that there was not a drug trafficking or drug selling what i wanted there is were some friends together and some accident happened just in the last vegas of course but interation the one for some part. that is that other case and. in fact mr was he had the bad idea of selling six hundred fifty grams of heroin to an undercover f.b.i. agent. for you if you want to make it to make your way a good video for use of the stick as much as you can if this is a case somebody accident happened just last summer and heave there for a while. what is given us that is then missing and then he cannot work for his nation. it is estimated that four billion dollars circulating in the country's

economy come from heroin trafficking. another four billion comes from. nationally. this massive influx of money has triggered the arrival of gold speculators. afghanistan attracts war investors xcel businessmen that has made a fortune in the emirates. they're building these gilded shopping malls hoping to take advantage of the country's simmering opulence. telltale sign hundreds of brand new s.u.v.s in the streets. to join the anti-corruption deputy this sudden wealth is only the food. to prove his point he takes us somewhere to lunch. this is not an s.u.v. dealership it is a banquet organized in the owner of a member of parliament who was assassinated all those who count incumbent are attending want to. go.

to let me taste usually only these people of the richest people. who are his have axes. they're not welcome here it. just shows this is how international aid is managed it's catastrophic. such you don't know where does the money end up. in a focus of those placed upon the deputies the senate is just business it is doing heads of n.-g. is the united nations department heads who goes beyond this scope waste of food or cheeriest meal is killed by a french american english taxpayer. paid. to see one who thought he was paying for the construction of roads of electric facilities it's cool. that you the money went into the pockets of the government and to be heard sales the luxury it's a good time to do. oh if you can see

with your own eyes how your money is wasted. it's something americans different people they usually see. if i don't really want to use you because they have it up you'll pull the true money with the simple is that if you'll give them up this if you'll come to see would be kids. you know all fairness international aid has succeeded in many sectors. in health for instance the french alliance for children and the aga khan foundation have financed medical equipment that compared to what can be found in europe. even if the price of certain services like scanners are out of reach of many hands. as for the americans they have built hundreds of kilometers of roads in record time. although it must be said that the first contracts going to american companies and that some funds were misappropriated. for instance the us beyond texas based

companies that provide security for road construction sites is being sued by the american government for forging invoices. a u.s.b. i employee is accused of issuing false invoices for gas employees and car. pointing to an f.b.i. investigation american taxpayers paid three million dollars over two years for services that were never rendered for managers of the company have been detained. met in film with a hidden camera u.s.p. i mercenaries they say that they were trapped by the f.b.i. the word to me. that it was they. investigated it. they in the say so crossing the line is these are personal and.

corruption is largely endemic to the reconstruction sector. unscrupulous subcontractors sell contracts to each other. they take a commission for the sale and this leads to the reduction of the original budget. an employee for a construction company has accepted to describe the scheme under conditions of anonymity. it was that. when foreigners hand out a construction project to an afghan company they become partners and they want their share. they request a commission for each job as they. can represent up to thirty percent of the budget if you don't pay you don't get the contract. this year. that's why the quality of materials is so bad here and. all the people who work in this field used poor quality products really to keep in this and they say they're going to use turkish

french or german products whole but they don't. know the materials come from pakistan everyone knows that that's why you see so many buildings schools bridges and roads falling apart so that. woman has noticed the poor quality of buildings on more than one occasion part of. his job is to control the quality of construction for the government to see lots of substandard buildings but when he tried to denounce a shady company he had to walk. through the. they were using low quality sand for the cement to build the walls of and also the walls were crumbling. we requested that they stop using this type of sand or well i think didn't take our request into consideration they ignored our request why i was among them because they have friends in high places. that allowed it. to kindy i bet if you and i have seen publicly to clear that if see you show me one

bit of it i repeat just one building that was built correctly clinic the. school. see all move would surely one job it was completed all the way it was supposed to be this is breaking international norms. quick politics. for afghans the best example is they came here come the hospital. the building is located in a working class suburb of company it serves one point five million people. you see because i wanted to cry this building is so bold you can see everything is destroyed for a space just five years ago thanks to a gift from the international community the hospital was renovated and a new wing at this building is not working speciated the second story is today it

is falling apart or so yards you can see everything is the size of. the toilets and bathrooms are closed because of leaks they're currently being used to store broken furniture or case specifically because the shell is now illegal logging. just call it just because if there was a top this. way that i don't think if we used the top hair then it will destroy the first story first of the roof of the. building because of the earliest mika father yes ok there was rebuking this food is the this is this this is the for a second tour of the road and if we use the tub it will leak to the first floor you see that's where leaks. you know before.

as you see it's all become the resistance to some of. this is your leaks history says that back good. so you see these the low quality times that they have been used if it is getting destroyed the strike. is. the trials are broken the electrical outlets thing from there chasing us. as you see as the operation you can see. this trial. you can see right through. we have studied the hospital's reconstruction budget. total budget is two point two million dollars millions that will soon melt away. first the united nations agency that hands out the project with draws a two hundred seventy thousand dollar operating expense commission. that leaves one

point nine million this money is allocated to an italian n g o that will supervise the work the ngo keeps one million dollars to buy washing walls electrical wire and washtubs. it pays nine hundred thousand dollars to an afghan company that will carry out the actual job. two million dollars is a staggering amount for afghanistan. as a point of comparison how much does it cost to build a palace in the ship or district. altogether four hundred thousand dollars. yet two million dollars will be spent to renovate an old building and add a new wing. a lot of money for the afghans especially for a worn down building. who's responsible italian in geo with the afghan subcontractor. the prosecutor's office in kabul has launched an investigation to

answer that question. the italian n.-g. o. initial good will accepted to meet with us. interests us headquarters are in rome they have not been back to kabul. since. if the water is leaking in it's we couldn't waterproof it because we didn't have the equipment where you will be could. tiles are broken but that happens but i still can't understand here. still the fact that it's still running amazes me i was sure that it was closed. she is the head of intercepts he did not oversee the hospital building site himself his n.g.o.s specializes mine clearance. didn't do anything two thousand to afghanistan was

a rough place and no companies were capable of rebuilding the hospital so we accepted the job he ate when i saw the report describing the final results but all i could say was great you did jump the report was written by specialists at least from the afghan government no no no from you not so international technicians. said we should be and that's what i'm saying so if you see this is something that's not right at the top. this is the field engineer who was in charge of operations he claims a lack of maintenance of the building among other things. this is like someone that they have to make and if they don't follow the book. that's not enough to know it's not what it is it's an older maybe another years old it's a pretty good no no that. was. no no no again we're going

back to the reality this is the part where i would go by you this is this fourth year so this part will destroy this where it was built by your subcontractor four years ago i should admit and you can see it's falling down and it's very bad it's months but this sort of this year is a myth to use physical. that's of the extent of. the surfacing of the cement. there is no all that useful if you have no never seen. it this time you think the first of her story. there was a major earthquake in two thousand and four in afghanistan but it's epicenter was three hundred kilometers away from the consulate and no damages were reported in kabul. for afghan authorities the explanation is far more trivial

the hospital is falling apart because of poor quality materials for use. the investigating prosecutor is one of the few officials genuinely fighting against corruption. on the morning we met him he was trying to get back salaries owed to teachers from a distant province side if other money would yes it's the government he told me teachers' salaries. yes six thousand dollars. at the prosecutor's request the control commission started looking into the n.g.o.s books. i mean. quality control is one of those they came across a lot of expenses that had nothing to do with the hospital he's refusing to say that well you know most about everything. the prosecutor keeps invoices of the ngos operating expenses in this plastic bank for him there are simply too high. to two this is the whole communications network. expansion that salaries computers

travel furniture television rugs for their offices in addition we can allocate those expenses to the original budget for the reconstruction even these items cannot be considered part of their mission but all doubt whether any of it but for the heads of interest their normal operating costs for a western ngo of closely enough every project if you do will ensure is there there is a complete overview. the so called supporting course started their communication courses their pickups for the material there are still a few computers a song that obviously a percentage of the all supporting c. is from the injury or should it should and should use it to two and four. as you can only five percent is a. afghan authorities are also surprised by the high cost of materials imported from italy. the admitting they said they had to buy materials in italy.

windows in its early lamps in pakistan was across its bathtubs in italy it was all he could in myself all this while the markets in afghanistan are filled with the cheese out of that hard line italy where all of that is a part of a group with its own economically too good to italy to bring some w.c. does it really was impossible to find anybody revise the artist and we have no banker. people come from italy with the money in their pocket this will be to pay the there was no no one banking really needed in the interval. finally and that's the main problem the afghan subcontractor that performed nine hundred thousand dollars worth of work simply vanished. for myself yes or the record was the company never existed as well it doesn't have an address my knowledge will be with the full custody of my motion with this company which is called children rehabilitation is not likely isolationist suffrage so how can they

make so much money. he. apparently the subcontractor seems to overbuild some services like the demolition of an old building for eighty thousand dollars. tax three times the regular amount but the italian in geo continues to side with the afghan contractor even though it is flagged don't secure receipt which surprises me is that you continue to trust to some contract americans want to spend it and we realize that all the very secret for it was a bird it shares and so they really. correct many and they were good because they were concerned of their own is no way they were nerds and they're not capable of giving the name of the guy who built the ospital you who contracted him are not capable of giving me skill for longer for example which if number was provided to the attorney general the frazier was unable to find in the. as

a commuter though the this is one wholly committed truck with a mobile a foam and he was a thinking man's the last c c and there is a beer in the truck is full yet this is worth it a little bit of the even if they can only. then a few months after this interview united nations launched an investigation against the american official from un o.p.'s who had supervised the hospital budget apparently he had embezzled no less than five hundred thousand dollars. so how can you not be disappointed when the world asked us for help against the soviets we were there. and we have made so many sacrifices for us with these countries they came to help afghanistan reconstruct itself so they said unfortunately instead of that is what we faced with loss but it is your. trust towards the reconstruction sector is dwindling within the afghan population.

expatriates are now synonymous with overblown salaries. and afghan n.g.o.s are suspected of running shady operations. when he was planning minister basher those confirmed that these operations were dishonest after investigating these n.g.o.s he requested that eight out of ten be closed. there are two thousand three hundred fifty five n.g.o.s in afghanistan the majority ninety percent a local. leader one thousand nine hundred and thirty five are outright thieves which who openly waste the phones that they are allocating loves the public funds internationally your people. trust from people seventy percent of their budget is spent on logistics. cooks is it body guards that come over. two.

we requested was that these two just n.g.o.s be clicked the film with you on this it was a witch which you feel this is i found only four hundred twenty of them to be honest see show us if we kick out the corrupt to the thieves to the court it'll give you the onus to positions a charge too good to e.g. how i feel. special post was never able to carry out his plans. he had to resign from the government after his proposition. among the few n.g.o.s that had the approval of the minister was afghanistan them out of afghanistan tomorrow the school run by a french afghan national. geo budget is ridiculously low but it provides an education to five hundred street kids that never went to school. for these children afghanistan means one meal per day and learning how to read and

write. stories that matter to me the money they got on my couch is made up i used to look at other children going to school and i'd be frustrated and jealous but now that i'm going myself i feel better. well think out oh in financial year i had to work because my father could not provide for the family i didn't have a choice i had to work all year i feel much better now that i come to the center and earning and learning to regional lights he was astonished but he also made a good stick. and corruption of the taliban's best allies. an increasing number of afghans are regretting also not openly islamists iron hand. in the muslims on each under the taliban you didn't see such high levels of corruption so when you did come up true to form

a decision the newly because it is today it's become a widespread system systems that i'm under sort of it's true we didn't always argue with their politics but when it came to economics there was less corruption and we had fewer problems it was written. in two thousand and one it took only a few weeks to house the taliban from kabul. but already in super talented and violence still remains. how can one be surprised that eight years later the taliban are coming back.

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