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Former US officer jailed for $1m Iraq fuel theft
A former captain in the US Army has been sentenced to 97 months in prison for his participation in a scheme to steal approximately 10 million gallons of fuel from depots in Iraq.Robert Young, 57, a US citizen who resided in the Philippines until his arrest in connection with this case, was sentenced by US District Court Judge Claude M. Hilton in the Eastern District of Virginia. Judge Hilton also sentenced Young to three years of supervised release to follow his prison term, and ordered him to pay $26,276,427 in restitution. Young was also ordered to forfeit $1m in personal profits he made from the scheme.
Young pleaded guilty on July 24, 2009, to both counts of a two-count superseding indictment charging him and Robert Jeffery with conspiracy and theft of government property.
Between October 2007 and May 2008, he and his co-conspirators, purportedly representing Department of Defense contractors in Iraq, used fraudulently obtained documents to enter the Victory Bulk Fuel Point (VBFP) in Camp Liberty, Iraq, and presented false fuel authorisation forms to steal aviation and diesel fuel from the VBFP for subsequent sale on the black market.
The United States owns and operates the VBFP in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The VBFP supplies fuel to both military units and US Government contractors operating in and around the Victory Base Complex. To retrieve and transport the stolen fuel from the VBFP, Young admitted that he and his co-conspirators employed several individuals to serve as drivers and escorts of the trucks containing the stolen fuel. During Young's participation in the scheme, he received approximately $1m in personal profits.
The case is being prosecuted by Special Assistant US Attorney Steve Linick, Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division's Fraud Section, and Fraud Section Trial Attorneys Andrew Gentin and Brigham Cannon. The investigation of this case was conducted by the US Army Criminal Investigation Command, the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, the FBI and members of the National Procurement Fraud Task Force and the International Contract Corruption Task Force (ICCTF).
The National Procurement Fraud Task Force, created in October 2006 by the Department of Justice, was designed to promote the early detection, identification, prevention and prosecution of procurement fraud associated with the increase in government contracting activity for national security and other government programmes.
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