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The World A11 U.S. contractor accused of not paying Afghan vendors is jailed BY JOSH BOAK The Afghan government this
weekend jailed a 75-year-old U.S. citizenwhose firm, Red Sea Engi- neers and Constructors, has re- ceived about $500 million in contracts over the past three years. Roy Carver, Red Sea’s chief
executive, was charged with ow- ing money to Afghan vendors that provided supplies to his
construction firm, said his daughter and son-in-law,Roberta Carver-Carson andDenis Carson. They said the source of the
problem is late payments by an- other U.S. firm, Falls Church- based DynCorp International, that had subcontracted work to Red Sea. DynCorp spokeswoman Ashley Burke said that Red Sea was not paying its own Afghan workers,who thenwalked off the job site. To keep construction going, she said, DynCorp began
paying the Afghan employees di- rectly. Afghan officials could not im-
mediately be reached for infor- mation on the case. The U.S. Embassy in Kabul on Monday confirmed the arrest. After Carver had a meeting at
the Afghan attorney general’s of- fice, police escorted himto jail at the Kabul Governor’s House Compound. Red Sea employs 1,200 Af- ghans and constructs the cylin-
drical steel-panel buildings that are commonly found at military camps in Afghanistan, according to the company’sWeb site. Carver’s arrest comes as the
United States has been pressur- ing the Afghan government to reduce corruption. This month, the United States banned the Afghan company Watan Group from receiving future contracts. Cousins of Afghan President Hamid Karzai run the Watan Group’s security guard subsid-
iary. “My biggest fear is that Kabul
wants to show the world that they’re now utilizing their legal system and everything is above the board,” Carver-Carson said. “I’m afraid that they might be usingmy father as an example.” His family said they are receiv-
ing updates from a Red Sea employee who is taking food, medicine and blankets to his boss. Carver shares a cellwith sever-
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al inmates. His daughter has been in contact with an official from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul who visited her father. She said the official told her
that theUnited Stateswill not get involved in thematter but that it will ensure that Carver is not mistreated. Carver founded Red Sea in
2002 and has been in the govern- ment contracting industry for 40 years. He previously established two other contractor firms, Seair Transport Services and Tero Tek International. AnOct. 27 report by the Special
Inspector General for Afghani- stan Reconstruction identified Red Sea as the second-largest recipient in the country of pay- ments by the U.S. Joint Contract- ing Command. The company received a con-
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tractworth $478million between 2007 and 2009, according to the report. Red Sea also built an upscale
housing complex for internation- al workers in Kabul that is home to the restaurantRedHot Sizzlin’. “This restaurant is the place to
go if you are after a steak, Ameri- can-style,” according to an online review by the travel guide Lonely Planet. “It’s all Tex-Mex here, with juicy T-bones, piles of fries and a cold one to wash it all down.” The company’s registration to
be a U.S. government contractor expired inJanuary, according to a federal database. Its license to do business in Afghanistan expired in September. But in an e-mail sent two
weeks ago, Carverwrote that Red Sea is “still active inAfghanistan.”
boakj@washpost.com
Staff writer Ernesto Londono in Kabul contributed to this report.
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BYWILLIAM BOOTH
mexico city—Emerging with a long,white beard like Santa Claus or a castaway froma desert isle, a formerpresidentialcandidateand political heavyweight who was one of themost notorious kidnap victims in Mexico was released Monday after seven months in captivity. Diego Fernandez de Cevallos,
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ernment said much about the identity of his abductors, nor how much—if anything—was paid to thepeoplewho tookhimcaptive. “About the kidnappers, as a
man of faith, I already forgave them,” Fernandez said. “And as a citizen, I thinkthat theauthorities have anunfinishedjob.” Fernandez, leader of the ruling
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lawlessness that gripsMexico, the police and military essentially abandoned the case to the family. Even Monday, the spokesman for the attorney general’s office spent most of the day saying he knew nothing about the release. Instead, severalMexican televi-
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sionjournalists played prominent roles in announcing it. The edito- rial director of the Milenio news organization said there were sus- picions that a weak, barely func- tioning oldguerrilla groupknown as the Popular Revolutionary Army was responsible, though many experts suspect that a pro- fessional kidnapping crew sup- ported by police and criminal or- ganizationswas likely the culprit.
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