Kuwait’s Agility to pay $95m to settle case over US supply contracts

Agility agrees to pay $95m in US Army food supply lawsuit

posted by Su-San Sit

30 May 2017

A Kuwaiti logistics company has agreed to pay $95m to settle a civil lawsuit over contracts it held with the US military between 2003 and 2010.

Agility, one of the Gulf’s largest logistics firms, was the biggest food supplier to the US Army during the war in Iraq but was accused of defrauding the military on food supply contracts.

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