Settlement announced in Defense Contracting Fraud false claims act qui tam case. Virginia-based defense contractor MPRI Inc. has agreed to pay $3.2 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false labor charges on a contract to support the Army in Afghanistan, the Justice Department announced on February 12, 2014. The government had alleged MPRI billed for employees who had not worked because they had been granted leave and were out of the country.
Under its contract with the Army, MPRI was supposed to provide support to the Army in its efforts to re-design and build from scratch a new Afghan Defense Sector that would establish an Afghan national security system suitable for a modern Western military, according to the government.
The qui tam whistleblower reportedly will receive $576,000 as his share of the settlement amount.
Read more: http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2014/February/14-civ-155.html
