US officer charged with bribery over Iraq contracts

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2007

NEW YORK (AFP) — A US Army captain has been arrested in New York on charges of accepting kickbacks in return for steering lucrative supply contracts for the US military in Iraq, prosecutors said Thursday.

Austin Key, 27, was arrested late Wednesday and charged with one count of bribery for allegedly abusing his position as an ordering and contracting officer while stationed in Baghdad.

Key oversaw service and supply contracts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, prosecutors said, without naming his unit.

In July, Key allegedly asked an unidentified American businessman working with the US military in Iraq for 125,000 dollars to be considered for future contracts.

The businessman alerted US authorities and agreed to meet Key again wearing a...

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