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Mortenson ’ s dysfunctional management. Whenever CAI staff members have attempted to closely monitor Central Asian programs, some of them report, he ’ s thwarted their efforts. In 2003 and 2004, a woman named Kate DeClerk came on board as CAI ’ s program director. She traveled to Pakistan to document the organization ’ s projects there, and discovered a number of ghost schools. When Mortenson continued to extol these failed projects as proud CAI achievements, DeClerk quit.
After Mortenson refused to comply with CFO Debbie Raynor ’ s repeated requests to provide documentation for overseas programs, Raynor contacted Ghulam Parvi (the Pakistan program manager) directly, instructing him to provide her with documentation. For two or three months Parvi complied — until Mortenson found out what was going on and ordered Parvi to stop. Raynor resigned.
In 2007, Mortenson hired an accomplished consultant to periodically fly to Central Asia to supervise projects. When he discovered irregularities and shared them with Mortenson, Mortenson took no action to rectify the misconduct. In 2010, the consultant quit in frustration.
In September 2007, CAI hired a highly motivated, uncommonly capable woman to manage its international programs. Quickly, she demonstrated initiative and other leadership skills the Institute sorely needed. She had exceptional rapport with Pakistani women and girls. In 2008, she unearthed serious issues in Baltistan that contradicted what Mortenson had been reporting. After she told Mortenson about these problems, she assumed he would want her to address them. Instead, as she prepared to return to Pakistan in 2009, Mortenson ordered her to stay away from Baltistan. Disillusioned, she resigned in June 2010.
When asked about the high turnover of talented employees, a person who worked for CAI during this period replies, “ Greg is always fucking with people, intentionally undermining them. That ’ s his management style. He does everything in his power to keep everyone off balance. He did not like people discovering things. ”
Last June, when Parvi announced his resignation and accused Mortenson of writing “ false and baseless stories in the book which is against Islam, Baltistan and Pakistan, ” Mortenson attempted to discredit Parvi by revealing that in November 2007, Parvi had confessed to embezzling approximately $50,000 from CAI. Mortenson and the CAI board received the confession via email shortly before Parvi embarked on a sacred pilgrimage to Mecca:
I am planning to leave Skardu for Saudi Arabia to perform HAJJ … . A Muslim believes that during Hajj, he has to openly admit all his SINS before the Allah Almighty and seek forgiveness … . Since I have to admit all my bad things, which I had performed without any witness and record, yet I believe Allah Almighty knows. Since there is no excuse, I also want to submit the same situation before you and the CAI Board Members. I admit that willingly or unwillingly I have spent the wealth of CAI at my own. Please Sir, do not hesitate to tell me every thing. I am mentally prepared to make good all losses which I had to CAI … . So Sir, if I am dead and could not come back home, Insha Allah you will not face any problem in getting the available assets of CAI. I have proper record of all the income and expenses of CAI which can be presented before any time.
Upon receiving this email, Mortenson neither fired Parvi nor probed further into his misconduct; according to staffers, doing so would have exposed the existence of ghost schools and other secrets that Mortenson didn ’ t want to come to light.
Parvi is not the only CAI employee to have misappropriated funds, and to no small degree Mortenson shares responsibility for the wrongdoing. Over the past sixteen years, he has disbursed millions of dollars in cash to CAI workers in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and has supervised these employees erratically at best. Brief flurries of intense
After Mortenson refused to comply with CFO Debbie Raynor ’ s repeated requests to provide documentation for overseas programs, Raynor contacted Ghulam Parvi (the Pakistan program manager) directly, instructing him to provide her with documentation. For two or three months Parvi complied — until Mortenson found out what was going on and ordered Parvi to stop. Raynor resigned.
In 2007, Mortenson hired an accomplished consultant to periodically fly to Central Asia to supervise projects. When he discovered irregularities and shared them with Mortenson, Mortenson took no action to rectify the misconduct. In 2010, the consultant quit in frustration.
In September 2007, CAI hired a highly motivated, uncommonly capable woman to manage its international programs. Quickly, she demonstrated initiative and other leadership skills the Institute sorely needed. She had exceptional rapport with Pakistani women and girls. In 2008, she unearthed serious issues in Baltistan that contradicted what Mortenson had been reporting. After she told Mortenson about these problems, she assumed he would want her to address them. Instead, as she prepared to return to Pakistan in 2009, Mortenson ordered her to stay away from Baltistan. Disillusioned, she resigned in June 2010.
When asked about the high turnover of talented employees, a person who worked for CAI during this period replies, “ Greg is always fucking with people, intentionally undermining them. That ’ s his management style. He does everything in his power to keep everyone off balance. He did not like people discovering things. ”
Last June, when Parvi announced his resignation and accused Mortenson of writing “ false and baseless stories in the book which is against Islam, Baltistan and Pakistan, ” Mortenson attempted to discredit Parvi by revealing that in November 2007, Parvi had confessed to embezzling approximately $50,000 from CAI. Mortenson and the CAI board received the confession via email shortly before Parvi embarked on a sacred pilgrimage to Mecca:
I am planning to leave Skardu for Saudi Arabia to perform HAJJ … . A Muslim believes that during Hajj, he has to openly admit all his SINS before the Allah Almighty and seek forgiveness … . Since I have to admit all my bad things, which I had performed without any witness and record, yet I believe Allah Almighty knows. Since there is no excuse, I also want to submit the same situation before you and the CAI Board Members. I admit that willingly or unwillingly I have spent the wealth of CAI at my own. Please Sir, do not hesitate to tell me every thing. I am mentally prepared to make good all losses which I had to CAI … . So Sir, if I am dead and could not come back home, Insha Allah you will not face any problem in getting the available assets of CAI. I have proper record of all the income and expenses of CAI which can be presented before any time.
Upon receiving this email, Mortenson neither fired Parvi nor probed further into his misconduct; according to staffers, doing so would have exposed the existence of ghost schools and other secrets that Mortenson didn ’ t want to come to light.
Parvi is not the only CAI employee to have misappropriated funds, and to no small degree Mortenson shares responsibility for the wrongdoing. Over the past sixteen years, he has disbursed millions of dollars in cash to CAI workers in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and has supervised these employees erratically at best. Brief flurries of intense
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