KABUL in exchange for supply contracts.
The US Department of Justice announced on Thursday Sergeant Ramiro Pena, who admitted receiving from the vendors a Rolex watch and $100,000 in bribes, had been sentenced to two years in prison.
A press release from the department said: "Pena admitted that he and his supervisor… were responsible for contracting with local vendors to purchase supplies to support humanitarian relief in Afghanistan."
Pena and his supervisor awarded 217 such contracts worth $30,760,255 from January 2008 . . .
