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president told bond churning it's an hour long putin and a session. right now would take a look at how billions invested into building schools and hospitals in afghanistan ended up paying for luxury business that the second part of our special report is up next. 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 just. such as yourself an. empty. sort of these people in this fiscal year which is i had some foods heartlands for

people to be calling in case they fail or they see something going on that have been asking people for pride and ones that tell folks go try ensued cooldowns me. as a member of record or numbers which we have i imagine ari production frank would the cases to the fabs which is nigeria see them. oddly enough the commission never investigated the sheer poor district. was this almost and this. is. a good serious. charges because it says risk a simple space was there for and has been built by the people to the majority of the people are the people they are there working in the destruction office. the services say that is is that they were the generator it was. probably that

you were buying power he'd looted surely poorer than he was offering them charging it and just making it like. this kid had a fit. look chief untouchable had to leave his post 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. and of course our guest. on any of conference i'm going to workouts. a moment ago during the quarter that's the minute i'm about this question once upon a time when i was in america nineteen could say eighty four eighty five i learned on vacation with some friends and other people but there was not a trafficking or drug setting right until there's a rumor some friends together or some aftermath on it i guess unless of course

about integration they were in for some part. of that is that i read the 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. and for you if you i mean if you can make your way a good video for use of the stick as much as you can if this is a case somebody accidentally happened to stress on and he careful about. what is given us that appears then the thing 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 international aid. this massive influx of money has triggered the arrival of build speculators. afghanistan attracts war investors excel to 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. a telltale sign hundreds of brand new has used these in the streets. this. form. the anticorruption deputy this sudden wealth is only the fruit of the political aisle to prove his point he takes us somewhere to lunch. this is not an s.u.v. dealership is a banquet organized in the owner of a member of parliament who was assassinated and all those who count on capital are attending want to cheer on it go. to live with this issue is only proof if these people are the richest people believe or will pull his exes so far they're not welcome here. just show this is

how international aid is managed it's catastrophic. that you don't where does the money end up. in the pockets of those close to power deputies the senate is just business it is doing his job engineer of the united nations department heads who goes beyond wisco waste of food or the jury is meal is killed by a french american english taxpayer. paid. to the same one who thought he was paying for the construction of roads electric facilities in a school. setting or the money went into the pockets of the government in the behind sells the luxury hotel to tell you. how if you don't you can see with your nice how your money is wasted by something americans different people they usually see. what you are you see because they are there with up your political money if simple as that was that if you gave them

a list of your country they would take it. you know in fairness international aid has succeeded in many sectors. in health for instance the french alliance for children and the aga khan foundation of finest 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 afghans. 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 u.s.b. on a texas based company to provide security for road construction sites is being sued by the american government for forging invoices. a u.s.

p.-i employee is accused of issuing false invoices for gas employees and current according 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 of the hidden camera u.s.b. i mercenaries they say that they were trapped by the f.b.i. the word to me. that it was a. if you investigate it crossing the line. in the series of 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. when foreigners hand out instruction project to an afghan company they become partners and they want their share. they request a commission for each job now they can represent up to thirty percent of the budget if you don't pay you don't get a contract. this year. that's why the quality of materials is so bad here and ok we get it shipped all the people who work in this field use poor quality products. in us and they say they're going to use turkish french or german products whole but they don't and these from the home of the materials come from pakistan everyone knows that look at the west that's why you see so many building schools bridges and roads falling apart so that. moment has noticed the poor quality of buildings and more than one occasion part of. his job is to control the quality of

construction for the government has seen lots of substandard buildings but when he tried to denounce a shady company he hit along. with others 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 but they didn't take our request into consideration that you're willing they ignored our request why because they have friends in high places. most of them over the allowed. to party i bet if you and i have seen publicly to clear the sea you show me one building i repeat just one building that was built correctly clinic. a school. see almost would surely one job it was completed all the way it was supposed to be this record is pretty

international norms how quickly this. for afghans the best example is the cane or kind of hospital. the building is located in a working class suburb of compost it serves one point five million people. of new cd called upon to do good quality this building is sold you can see everything is destroyed for a six year signed 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 secret stores today it is falling apart or so yes you can see everything is the strength of it. the toilets and bathrooms are closed because of leaks they're currently being used

to store broken furniture or case specifically because as a show there is no sleep you log in to go see. all of this you can see there watch the top of this from the high point of the if we used to top hair then a third astride the first story first of the roof of the beginning his of the earliest make up of the yes ok world series this is food is the two of us this is the for a second or third of their game if we use the tub it will leak to the first floor you see that's where it leaks. you know before. as you see it's all the coalition systems problem. this is our leaks history says that back good so you see these the low quality tells of the day have been used as if it is it's an destruction of the site. is. the

trials are broken the electrical outlets thing from there chasing us. as you see as the operation you can see it was of 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 not the way. first the united nations agency that hands out the project withdraws 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.s that will supervise the work in-joke keeps one million dollars to buy wash balls 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 is responsible italian ngo or the afghan subcontractor. the prosecutor's office in kabul has launched an investigation to answer that question. and italian n.-g. o. initial good will accepted to meet with us. interests headquarters are in rome they have not been back to come.

if the water is leaking in it's we couldn't waterproof it because we didn't have the equipment we did will become good. tiles a broken but that happens i still can't stand. still the fact that it's still running amazes me i was sure that it was closed. she is the head of intersex he did not oversee the hospital building site himself his n.g.o.s specializes in mine clearance. let me do that in two thousand and two afghanistan was a rough place and no companies were capable of rebuilding the hospital not so we accepted the job when i saw the report describing the final results but all i could say was great you did a good job the report was general written by specialists at least from the afghan

government no no no from you know international technicians they should. be and that's what i'm saying that's o.t.c. this is something that's not right. this is the field engineer who was in charge of operations he claims a lack of maintenance of the building but other things. differently. this is like someone that they have to make and if they are going to look. at some of their nothing but it's not the it's supposed to be another year is over it's a great i know we're going to know that. no no no again we're going back to the reality this is the part that was built by you this is this part here so this part will destroy this work was built by your subcontractor

four years ago which is really going to be upset and you can see it's flowing down and it's very bad cement that this sort of this you know is a myth this is a political. it's of the extent of. the stretches not to say. there is no old it should fully be but you have known that it seemed. because on you think there's a that's the first 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 council 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 youth. 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 to teachers from a distant province the side that fundamentally would yes if the government has the

teachers' salaries. yes i have one six thousand dollars. that the prosecutors request a control commission started looking into the n.g.o.s books. policy controllers. they came across a long time expenses that had nothing to do with the hospital his riches exceed. most of that and i think the really. the prosecutor keeps invoices of the n.g.o.s operating expenses in this plastic bank for him there are simply too high. fits into this the whole communications network. expansion of salaries computers travel furniture television rugs for their offices the station we can allocate those expenses to be original budget for the reconstruction in these items cannot be considered part of their mission but all doubt whether any of it but for the heads of interest and their normal operating costs for

a western ngo of course he never approach it to be due to the injuries due there is a complete over. the so called supporting of course those who started their communication courses their pickup for the material there are so few computers and so on that obviously a person pager of the wall or to see is down to their injury or should it should and should use it to to go to war. because you can only focus it is every. afghan authorities are also surprised by the high cost of materials imported from italy. the admitting they said they had to buy an interior is in italy kicking up windows in its early lamps in pakistan water closets bathtubs in italy was all i did it in my salon all this while the markets in afghanistan who filled with the cheese are that hard line italy that want us out as you know a political group who is its own economically politically to lead to bring some

w.c. members is merely was impossible to fit in very revise their bags and we have no bank. people ampho easily with the money in their pocket the full year to pay the there was no no one bank in the area they needed. in for food. finally and that's the main problem the afghan subcontractor that performed nine hundred thousand dollars worth of work simply vanished. must have been a middle of the asteroid that ecowas the company never existed as well it doesn't have an address the ritual did of course i think of the notion. that this company which is called children rehabilitation is not likely as a neighbor has suffered as that so how can it make so much money i thought is b.s. just like. the currently contractor seems to overbuild some services like the demolition of an old building for eighty thousand dollars. x.

three times the regular amount but the italian in geo continues to side with the afghan contractor even though it is flood committed secure visit which surprises me . is that you continue to trust to some country matters michael bennett we realize that all the very secret for it was upgraded straight soon so they really. correct many and they were good because they were concerned that there is no way they were nuts and they are not capable of giving the name of the guy who will be our spittle you look so countrified him i know capable of giving me the phone number for example which telephone number was provided to the originator of the three joe was unable to find in the it was it came to me this time how could a truck with a mobile a phone and he was a thinking mother was last seen see and there is a beer in the truck is full yet this is what they told me go that way and if they can only do it. then

a few months after this interview do not it nations launched an investigation against the american official from un o.p.'s who had supervised the hospital budget apparently killed embezzled no less than five hundred thousand dollars. so how can you not be disappointed but you know 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 has almost as our. 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. if. there are two thousand three hundred fifty five engineers in every guy stuff the majority ninety percent a local. bidder one thousand nine hundred and thirty five outright thieves which openly waste the fans that they are allocating the public funds internationally your could be. the. first one to seventy percent of their budget is spent on logistics to stick cooks busybody. to. we requested was the least n.g.o.s be clipped the film which will this is an issue phyllis is down only four hundred twenty to be honest see on shas if we kick out the corrupt to the thieves to the core it will give you the honest organization

a chance to work through e.g. . bashardost was never able to carry out his plan. 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 the mothers of afghanistan tomorrow a school run by a french afghan national. budget is ridiculously low but it provides an education to five hundred street kids that never went to school. for these children afghanistan demand means one meal per day and learning how to read and write. stores have to can even marc garneau market which is made up i used to look at other children going to school and i'd be frustrated i'm jealous but right now i'm going myself i feel better me come back. oh implants when you're caught i had to work because my father

cannot provide for the family i didn't have a choice i do it all year i feel much better now that i come to the center i'm learning i'm learning to regionalize are who was the other woman here at. chaos and corruption of the taliban's best allies. and increasing number of afghans are regretting although not openly the islamists iron hand. under the taliban you didn't see such high levels of corruption go well you did come up should you want to say newly as it is today it's become a widespread system systems that i'm undecided because 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. with them both introduced.

in two thousand and one it took only a few weeks to oust the taliban from kabul. but already insecure talented and violence still remains. how can one be surprised that eight years later the taliban are coming back.

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