From Pentagon Producer Mike Mount

WASHINGTON (CNN) — A lawsuit filed in California against Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) on Wednesday alleges the company and its subcontractor were involved in a human trafficking plan that forced 13 Nepali men to work against their will in Iraq.

The men, between the ages of 18 and 27, were recruited in Nepal and told they would be doing work in kitchens in hotels and restaurants in Amman, Jordan, but instead were tricked and sent to Iraq to work at a U.S. air base, according to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit alleges KBR, based in Houston, Texas, and Daoud & Partners, a Jordan-based subcontractor, engineered the trafficking scheme.