According to SIGAR, from 2002 to mid-2021 the United States allocated approximately $144.7 billion for Afghanistan’s reconstruction, of which an estimated $26–29 billion was lost to waste, fraud and abuse.
The report says SIGAR identified 1,327 instances of waste, fraud and abuse in US assistance programmes, 93 percent of which were categorised as waste.
It noted that from 2009 to August 2025, the organisation issued nearly 900 performance and financial audits, evaluations, inspections, warning letters and other reports. Across these reviews, SIGAR recorded around 1,911 cases of “control weaknesses.”
SIGAR investigators also assisted in securing the convictions of 171 individuals in the United States and Afghanistan, resulting in $1.7 billion in criminal fines, asset forfeitures, civil settlements, recoveries and savings for the US government.
