Mon 13 September 2021:
In a now-viral video, the Taliban have claimed that they have seized up to six million dollars and about 15 bricks of gold from the residence of former Afghan vice-president Amrullah Saleh, reported The Khaama Press News Agency on Monday.
However, no comments have been received from Amrullah Saleh in this regard.
Afghanistan’s ambassador to Tajikistan, Mohammad Zahir Agbar, had claimed that President Ashraf Ghani had “taken $169 million with him” when he fled Afghanistan.
He said Ghani should be arrested and the wealth of the Afghan nation be restored, Ozodi reported.
Taliban have claimed that they have seized up to six million dollars and about 15 bricks of gold from the residence of former Afghan vice-president Amrullah Saleh, reported The Khaama Press News Agency on Monday.#Taliban #AfghanistanCrisis #Kabul pic.twitter.com/epXKNECidI
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A string of official reports – many deleted last week from US government sites apparently due to the ‘ongoing security concerns’ – showed how a ‘corrupt elite’ in Afghanistan ran the government for personal gain while committing crimes with impunity, alienating ordinary people and driving many into the arms of insurgency, the Daily Mail had reported earlier.
The waste of taxpayers’ money was astonishing, with ‘ghost’ schools and military forces, counter-narcotics efforts that backfired, dodgy construction and fuel deals siphoning off billions, and cash and gold smuggled out through the Kabul airport, the report said.
US diplomatic cables revealed that one Afghan Vice-President flew to Dubai with 38 million pounds in cash and that drug traffickers and corrupt officials were shifting 170 million pounds a week out of the country where average incomes were scarcely 430 pounds a year, the report said.
Last week, the ousted Afghan government’s ambassador to Tajikistan had said Panjshiri leader Ahmad Shah Massoud and Amrullah Saleh had not fled Afghanistan and their resistance forces are still fighting the Taliban.
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