Audit questions Kansas company's costs for Afghanistan work

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal audit has found that a Kansas company received $1.31 million in "ineligible" reimbursements from the U.S. government while it was working on an electrical power project in Afghanistan.

The Kansas City Star reports that the U.S. Agency for International Development awarded Overland Park-based Black & Veatch a contract as part of a national initiative to improve the power system in southern Afghanistan as part of the government's counterinsurgency strategy.

Auditors commissioned by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction recomm...