Business As Usual: Hands On, Hands Off
“There is nothing per se improper about relatives of a foreign leader having an ownership interest in a company that is a
- Lana Hampton, Pentagon
“Any possible misappropriation of funds is an internal Kyrgyz matter.”
- Bryan Whitman, Pentagon spokesman.
“The Pentagon was doing contracts that they knew were going to benefit the ruling family. It was very clear that this was an effort to secure the support of the old regime. But it had the exact opposite effect that the Pentagon wanted it to have.”
- Scott Horton, American lawyer and Central Asian specialist.
(David S. Cloud. “Pentagon’s Fuel Deal Is Lesson in Risks of Graft-Prone Regions,” NYT’s,
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