Food suppliers paid to feed diggers in Afghanistan fined millions for cheating the US

By Rory Callinan
Updated November 8 2015 - 12:18am, first published 12:00am
Australian and Afghan troops  evacuate civilian victims of a Taliban roadside bomb in Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan.
Australian and Afghan troops evacuate civilian victims of a Taliban roadside bomb in Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan.

A multinational food company that received tens of millions of Australian taxpayers' money to supply diggers in Afghanistan was running a lucrative fraud drastically hiking up the cost of basic items shipped into the war zone.

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