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Whistleblower claims ADB fraud in Afghanistan
Emerging Markets, ADB editions, Madrid, May 2009
A former ADB consultant is in Madrid with a list of grievances against the bank including fraud and a failure to protect whistleblowers, both of which the bank denies.
David Elliot worked for the ADB in Afghanistan and claims that while there he was asked by an ADB official to falsify reports for donors, and that when he refused to do so, his contract was terminated. He further claims that funds from the UK’s Department for International Development intended for projects with the Aga Khan Foundation were never dispersed, including a mobile health clinic in the country’s north with one of the highest mortality rates in the world. Continue…
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