Taxpayer-funded facilities in Afghanistan sit empty, without power

Documents that detail the construction of a U.S.-backed industrial park in Afghanistan are missing, leaving investigators with little understanding of how the $7.8 million project was mostly empty and without electricity when they visited last year.

Despite having room for 48 businesses, the 37-acre Shorandam Industrial Park, which was funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, is home to just four Afghan companies, according to a report made public Wednesday by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.