A US court document filed on Thursday revealed two Fort Bragg soldiers had embezzled around $1.3m while deployed in Afghanistan in 2009, reports published on Sunday say.

A US District Court has charged Edwin Vando and Juan Lamboy Rivera in a criminal information which accuses the soldiers of embezzling $1,297,959.31 in vender payments that an Afghan company, Abdul Wasi Faquiri Co Ltd) should have received.

The soldiers were charged on Thursday but their case dates back to July when documents had been filed.

The men were deployed to Camp Eggers in Kabul from May to June 2009 as part of the 82nd Finance Battalion.

Vando lives in Hope Mills and Rivera resides in Fayetteville, according to the criminal information, but it is not yet clear of the two are still Fort Bragg soldiers.

They worked in the Camp Eggers' finance office and their job was to oversee payments to commercial vendors.

The third accused is an Afghan citizen employed as an interpreter for the Camp, who is only referred to as "R. J." in the court documents.

The company from which the three have allegedly embezzled is an Afghan firm that provides equipment and other items to the Afghan security forces.

The US Attorney's Office has said any property allegedly obtained through the crimes would be seized.