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Former Tamimi Global Executive Charged With Paying Kickbacks

ROCK ISLAND, IL – A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging Tamimi Global Company’s former Director of Operations for Kuwait and Iraq, Mohammad Shabbir Khan, with paying kickbacks to secure two military dining subcontracts valued at $21.8 million dollars, as announced by Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and Rodger A. Heaton, United States Attorney for the Central District of Illinois. Shabbir Khan, age 49, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Pakistan, was arrested in Rock Island, Illinois, on March 22, 2006, and charged in a criminal complaint with making a false statement. U.S. Magistrate Judge John A. Gorman ordered Khan detained pending trial.

The 16-count indictment returned today alleges that Khan participated in a scheme to defraud the U.S. government from October 2002 through October 2003 by paying approximately $133,000 in kickbacks in U.S. currency and wire transfers to a Procurement Materials and Property Manager for Kellogg, Brown & Root Services, Inc. (KBR) and to others on his behalf.

The alleged kickbacks were related to awards for subcontracts for two military dining facilities: a $14.4 million dollar subcontract at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, and a subcontract of $7.4 million dollars at a palace in Baghdad, Iraq.

U.S. Attorney Heaton stated, “Schemes to defraud the United States at the expense of our taxpayers and soldiers must be rooted out. Today’s indictment is part of our ongoing effort to eliminate such fraud.”

The indictment alleges that in October 2002, Shabbir Khan, on behalf of Tamimi, was negotiating the Camp Arifjan dining facility subcontract with a KBR employee whose duties at the time included the negotiation, execution and administration of subcontracts on behalf of KBR under its prime contract with the U.S. Army known as LOGCAP III. On about October 9, 2002, Khan hosted a birthday party for the KBR manager. Following the party, Khan drove the manager to his quarters and allegedly offered to pay him a kickback for the award of the Camp Arifjan dining facility subcontract to Tamimi. The KBR manager allegedly accepted the offer and on or about October 14, 2002, the subcontract, with a not-to-exceed estimated price of $14.4 million for a one-year period, was awarded to Tamimi. Read more at dodig.osd.mil

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