A former contractor with a program funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development admitted to defrauding taxpayers of nearly $100,000, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
On Monday, Stephen Paul Edmund Sutton, a 53-year-old United Kingdom citizen, pleaded guilty to participating in a fraudulent kickback scheme from May through November 2015.
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Sutton, employed through a contracting firm, previously worked as a logistics operations manager on a power distribution program in Pakistan that USAID funded.
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The program, launched in September 2010, aimed to support Pakistan’s energy sector by facilitating improvements to the country’s “government-owned electric power distribution companies.”
The U.S. Attorney’s Office explained, “The main goal of the PDP was to improve the commercial performance of the participating
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