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An American company engaged in the base is accused of smuggling alcohol and human trafficking country

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An investigation conducted by Osyoshitd Press that the company (Salaibort Global) American, had received $ 686 million to secure an Iraqi base for aircraft F - 16 fighter, turning a blind eye to alcohol, theft and security violations and allegations of sex trafficking smuggling and dismissed from investigators work revealed irregularities.
Reveal documents and interviews with two of the company 's former investigators and former employees and current in the company, acts at Balad Air Base represent - if proved , - illegal violations of the contract.
He said Almhakqan articles are , Robert Cole and Christie Kink, they are revealing evidence of the involvement of the company 's employees in human trafficking in order to prostitution. Also , cadres at the base usually smuggle alcohol in very large quantities to the extent that one of the planes took a swing at one point because of the weight, and rogue militias stole huge electricity generators using trucks and cranes in front of the eyes of the security Salaibort company guards. Investigators and other former employees interviewed by Osyoshitd Press that the problem extends to the headquarters in Reston - Virginia, where what Khvoh did not reveal the United States government , which organized the decade until early this year after he began asking questions Checker accounts.
Says Almhakqan - who were expelled suddenly on March 12 and left Iraq immediately - they were checking into allegations of fraud in the record and always were about to interview the company 's managers who are considered suspects.
He said Kink in an interview , "I think they got rid of us quickly because they felt that we know a lot. When we finally realized that they were hiding all the things about the United States government, flew their mind."
The company said in a statement that they follow all the rules of contracting at the base where a squadron of F-exist - 16 indispensable in combat operations against Daesh. Where he wrote Matt Stockart, Chief Operating Officer , says "Salaibort has a proven track record in providing security and services life support in the conflict , such as Iraq areas, and play a key role in the war on Daesh. And that the company takes any alleged irregularities in the base country very seriously."
In one of the claims communicants he said that the airline line staff, who direct aircraft on the runway and deal with the goods, they were drunk, and Anolun each pot Mgamsh Balfodka material. A number of former employees that alcohol is forbidden in the base but it is present in every place where they are smuggled by plane, according to documents and witnesses, the empty bags are sent on trips to Baghdad and back - loaded Baknana plastic water filled with alcohol to avoid security, and this is a big risk in an area war.
He said that the company Stockart its security procedures and got a recommendation from the US Air Force. But Steve Anderson, who works in administrative matters for trips, says that the managers asked him to sign the statements he knew they forged to hide alcohol and guns, said the planes were too heavy and has stopped swaying like a swing. And when he announced his concern Oqaloh of his work and suggested that he finds himself a new job. The Iraqi government controls the country, and the Americans where they are located , from time to time since 2003. The evacuation of the base in June 2014 when Iraq invaded areas Daesh group. When he returned , the Americans had a duty to protect the company Salaibort base country aircraft F - 16 and Iraqi pilots insurance. The contract to investigate possible crimes and violations of the contract and that was important and Cole Kink.
On July 13 it landed four F aircraft - 16 at the base, the first meal of 36 aircraft, when it slipped a car on the runway stopped the plane just 45 yards from the stop area, where he lost car control of his car were plunged driver, but they are not informed about them. Three months later , Cole reported the theft of an armored Toyota car dedicated to the VIP. The suspect President is a member of the company 's protection. The car was recovered during the days of Cole stopped the case. He defended a former senior manager about it , saying that the negotiations with the militia were sensitive and requires the cooperation of the suspect Alaracaan.oodhav president was prevented from entering the base, but Cole saw him later walking freely inside the base. The continued security breaches, in November 15, 2016 and before the second hour after midnight was one of the militias lead three trucks to Al - Qaeda , one equipped with a crane, and after the lifting of three large power generators on trucks exited the militia without being intercepted by one. In spite of the need to report major security breaches are not reported to the US government until the beginning of this year for sliding the car near the plane or the theft of a car four - wheel drive armored, according to Cole and two other former company employees, she did not speak one only on condition of anonymity for their identity for fear of exposing their current jobs at risk.
During the pursuit of Cole Kink to get to the essence of the smuggling of alcohol found a prostitution ring in the Baghdad staff was Salaibort from its customers, according to the whistleblower.
Where they learned that four women Ethiopians, who worked for former prostitutes in a hotel, had moved to the country and had engaged in prostitution under the pretext of cleaning workers in the company. Prior to the completion of the investigation has a executive directors in the company closed it, claiming that the allegations of prostitution is unsubstantiated, and said Stockart "absurd to suggest that the company closes an investigation into such an important issue."
But later Cole and Kink began Pthakiqathma in the complaints that the company managers always visit and record some employees receive salaries without work. He says Almhakqan that the company 's lawyers ordered them to save two records in an attempt to deceive the auditors, says the King 's "record sees the government and another hidden it."
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U.S. contractor denies security risks, prostitution, smuggling at Iraq base

Posted on May 6, 2017 by Editorial Staff in Economy, General, Security

A US-made F-16 fighter jet outside a hardened hangar upon its arrival to Balad air base, north of Baghdad, Iraq, 2015. Photo: AP

WASHINGTON,— An embattled U.S. contractor, accused of failing to promptly disclose sex trafficking, alcohol smuggling and security violations on a nearly $700 million contract to secure an Iraqi air base, is denying many of the charges. An attorney for investigators, who were fired by the company, says the explanations don’t stand up.

Revelations of the allegations, published Wednesday by The Associated Press, were based on documents and interviews with the investigators, whom the company dismissed in March, and multiple other former employees.

The company, Sallyport Global, is responsible for securing the F-16 fighter jets at Balad Air Base that are used by the Iraqi air force in efforts to uproot the Islamic State group.

The company first called allegations that managers had shut down sex trafficking investigations “absurd” but later acknowledged that senior management had opened a second probe months later.

They say the late push to determine whether employees were involved in prostitution, was the initiative of new managers, including a new corporate ethics and compliance officer.

“The new company management would never shut down an internal investigation into serious allegations like prostitution,” Chief Operating Officer Matt Stuckart wrote in a statement.

The company contends the second probe found all the allegations of prostitution on the base were unfounded. But the fired investigators and an attorney representing them, Debra Katz, said their attempts to interview key suspects involved in the first case were again blocked by managers.

According to the investigators’ original report in February 2016, four Ethiopian women who were suspected of working at a hotel in Baghdad as prostitutes moved to the base after customers at the hotel complained about contracting sexually transmitted diseases. Those customers included Sallyport employees, the investigators said

The original report also listed the first names of the women and the going price for four hours of sex: $200 for the women and $300 for their pimp.

The company also denies allegations by the investigators that its lawyers ordered them to keep two sets of files in order to hide some of the investigators’ information from the U.S. government, which was footing the bill for the company’s contract.

“The investigators were specifically told to continue keeping a log, available to the U.S. government, of every investigation but not to include any attorney-client privilege information on that log – a standard practice,” Stuckert said.

But attorney Katz disagreed.

“They were explicitly told to keep double books,” she said. “There is no argument of attorney-client privilege that could justify the orders.”

Based in Reston, Virginia, Sallyport was founded in 2003 to work in Iraq on reconstruction, and has since expanded its operations globally. Some of Sallyport’s top managers joined the company after stints with other military contractors active in Iraq.

Sallyport president and CEO Victor Esposito previously worked at Blackwater Worldwide, a private military company. He then became the chief operating officer of Xe, as Blackwater renamed itself after its employees shot scores of unarmed Iraq civilians in 2007 at a Baghdad traffic circle. Jeff Morin, who worked as a Sallyport director until this week, also previously worked for Blackwater.

Twice in 2013 the company was sued by former employees.

In 2013, a U.S. Air Force veteran sued the company for negligence in federal court in Virginia, alleging he was severely beaten by his supervisor during a drunken card game at an air base in Iraq. Sallyport’s lawyers successfully argued that the veteran had no standing in U.S. court for events that occurred in Iraq. The lawsuit was dismissed.

Also that year, another ex-Sallyport employee sued the company alleging she was racially discriminated against and wrongfully terminated over drinking alcohol at a base in Qatar. While she denied she drank on the job, in her lawsuit Eboney Mayfield alleged that other Sallyport employees routinely drank on duty and weren’t punished.

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