I Lost My Gems & Jewelry Factory And Business Because Of Negligence Of An Implementing Partner Of A Grant.

Hello everyone.I had established a gems and jewelry factory in 2013 - with a vision of creating, in the long term, my own global jewelry brand based off of the factory in Afghanistan.

I hired the most talented jewelers available in Kabul and made one of them the vice president and partner. He managed all the production and technical aspects while I maintained the company and even gradually increased the gems inventory to incredible amounts.

Long story short, by 2019 my company won a half a million dollars - in-kind grant - for the procurement of 3 gold chain production Italian machines and 5 or so 3 D printers. It was literally among one of USAID's biggest grants in Afghanistan.!!!!

I was so ecstatic as my dreams were finally coming to fruition. However, the grant officer had other ideas. He lived in the same neighborhood as one of my factory apprentices - he convinced him that if he gets paid off, he can remove the original winning company's license from the grants paperwork and replace it with his business license. Thus he will be the owner of the machines when they arrive!

I have been living in USA since 2016 due to worsening security conditions. I lost communication from the grants office of the implementing partner(the company that implemented USAID's project in return for a certain fee). I sent email to grant director, requesting update about the status and timelines of my grant process. I didn't hear anything back from that email but I heard back from "the apprentice" (masquerading as my true well wishers) that the grant officer wants 50 percent partnership in my company or a lump sum amount or else my grant application will face hurdles. Since I have worked for more than 16 years of my life, in one capacity or another, with various INGOs and UN missions with great sense of service and honor, I couldn't give in and allow such misuse of authority and USAID funds - which comes from US taxpayers money.

In early 2021, while the grant procedures were in midway - with the imposter's newly forged documents - I sent an email with all the documents proving my case to the implementing partner's senior management, but I cc'd the office of Inspector General as well.

I got a short one line reply that they acknowledge the receipt of the email. In past three years they have not gotten back to me about my grant or what happened!!!

All this had terrible impact on my life both emotionally and financially. With the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan in 2021, in a few weeks time, the Taliban took over the country.

Since that apprentice, with encouragement from the grant officer, had already created a new business license with similarly worded name as my company's, and had invested hefty amounts in bribes, he took over my factory as well! All with the support and blessings of one of the Taliban commanders who happens to be from his village. Things in Afghanistan work in strange ways, nowadays. So this is how I lost my gems & jewelry factory and business because of an implementing partner's negligence and lack of responsibility.

Establishing a gems and jewelry factory costs big dollar amounts, even in Afghanistan. I had invested all my earned and inherited money on this business because I really believed in my vision and business plan. But now I am nothing more than a depressed loser in his mid-forties. If I didn't love my 5 kids this much, I would have already left this world.

Can any lawyer help me get justice for this utter negligence and disregard from this mammoth international, for-profit organization based in Maryland/DC ?