WASHINGTON, D.C., (MyBellinghamNow.com, AP) – The Pentagon’s inspector general says that Boeing overcharged the Air Force nearly $1 million for spare parts on C-17 cargo planes.

The Defense Department’s auditor reviewed prices paid for 46 spare parts on the C-17 from 2018 to 2022 and found that 12 were overpriced.

The Office of the Inspector General said they received a hotline tip about lavatory soap dispenser prices being marked up over 8000%.

The C-17 Globemaster is one of the military’s largest cargo aircraft. It can carry multiple military vehicles, large pallets of humanitarian supplies or, in extreme circumstances, hundreds of people.

The Air Force flew C-17s nonstop for two weeks during the hectic August 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, evacuating more than 120,000 civilians fleeing the Taliban.

Boeing disputed the findings.

Since 2011, the U.S. government has awarded Boeing more than $30 billion in contracts to purchase needed spare parts for the C-17 and be reimbursed by the Air Force.