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October 5th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Australian Neil Campbell has pleaded guilty to accepting bribes for steering US-funded contracts in Afghanistan, the US Department of Justice says.
Campbell, 61, from Mooloolaba on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, pleaded guilty in a federal court in Washington, DC, to one count of accepting a $US10,000 ($10,500) bribe as an agent of an organisation receiving federal funds, the Justice Department said in a statement on Tuesday.
Campbell worked in Afghanistan in 2009-2010 as an agent for the International Organisation on Migration (IOM), a group that has received more than $US260 million in US funds since 2002 to build hospitals, schools and other facilities.
Campbell admitted “that in July 2010, while in Afghanistan, he solicited a one-time cash payment of $US190,000 from a subcontractor … as a reward for funnelling more than $US15 million in reconstruction projects to that subcontractor”, the statement read.
The following month an undercover US agent posing as the subcontractor’s representative paid Campbell $US10,000 cash, and promised to pay the remainder in India.
But when Campbell flew to New Delhi, agents of India’s Central Bureau of Investigation arrested him.
Campbell was charged in August 2010 and extradited from India to stand trial in February.
“This conviction … shows the seriousness of our commitment to protecting the American taxpayer,” US Attorney Ronald Machen said.
“There is zero tolerance for such abuse of federal funds,” added US Agency for International Development Inspector General Donald Gambatesa.
Campbell faces up to 10 years in prison and a $US250,000 fine when he is sentenced on December 14.
He has also agreed to return the $US10,000 from the bribe he received.
AFP
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