US indicts Turkish contractor over NATO military construction contracts

US indicts Turkish contractor over NATO military construction contracts

Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A US federal grand jury has unsealed a sweeping indictment alleging that a Turkish construction contractor and a senior NATO official operated a covert bribery and fraud scheme for nearly a decade, corrupting NATO procurement processes to secure lucrative military construction contracts funded in part by American taxpayers. The indictment, filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, charges Bahadır Hat…