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1/18/2012 Contains incident reports of trafficking including allegations that:
- In 2007, Kulak Construction Company trafficked 10 Fijian women to Dubai, falsely promising them work as beauticians (pages 1-2; 8-15);
- KBR trafficked foreign female nationals to work in food service operations in Mosul in late 2005 (Pages 16-21);
- A KBR subcontractor trafficked Indian laborers by charging them fees that would take years to pay off (Page 40);
- Employees of a KBR subcontractor were living in deplorable conditions, fourteen TCNs were trafficked into Iraq, and a Nepalese TCN was wrongfully terminated from his job in Baghdad and forcibly returned to Nepal (Pages 45-50);
- En route from Jordan to Iraq, two vans of 12 Nepalese workers who had been trafficked to the region were kidnapped and later killed (Pages 51-54);
- Sri Lankan and Indian TCNs were mistreated and abused by an Iraqi owned and managed company in Baghdad (Pages 135-138);
- An American contractor bribed engineers and contractors with prostitutes in order to garner contracts and subjected female workers to unfair working conditions (Pages 141-149).
Expanded summary: Expanded Summary DoD-IG 1.18.2012 release 1-1.doc
FOIA docs: Documents DoD-IG 1.18.2012 release 1-1
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