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50% of national revenue being embezzled: Officials

2nd April, 2021 · admin

Ariana: Afghanistan’s acting finance minister Khalid Payanda said on Thursday that 50 percent of national revenue is being embezzled due to corruption, a lack of capacity and outdated finance system. According to Payanda, reforms will be brought to the current finance system. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Corruption, Economic News | Tags: Embezzelment, Khalid Payanda |
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Corruption Remains Greatest Threat to Afghanistan

15th March, 2021 · admin

Michael Hughes: The Afghan state will completely collapse if international donors pull funding due to concerns over corruption, which seems to be growing by the day. Predatory Afghan officials – often in league with warlords and transnational criminal organizations – are emptying government coffers as everyone seems to have their attention turned to whether or

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Posted in Corruption, Economic News, Opinion/Editorial, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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Kabul Lab Owned by Ghani Adviser Wins Contract for COVID Tests

12th March, 2021 · admin

Tolo News: According to letters by the civil aviation authority, the Presidential Palace has said that COVID-19 tests should be done by the UAE-based G42-Biogenix in collaboration with the City Laboratory based in Kabul that is owned by Rezwanullah Ahmadzai, an adviser to President Ghani. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Corruption, Economic News, Health News | Tags: Ashraf Ghani Government, Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Afghanistan |
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‘Millions of Dollars, 100s of Kilograms of Gold Smuggled Abroad’

9th March, 2021 · admin

Tolo News: Documents seen by TOLO news show that millions of dollars and hundreds of hundreds of kilograms of gold have been smuggled out of Afghanistan. Sources told TOLO news that a number of lawmakers and politicians in collaboration with the government officials are smuggling US cash and gold from Hairatan Port. Click here to

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Posted in Corruption, Economic News | Tags: Ashraf Ghani Government, smuggling |
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The Afghan Deputy And The Mystery Of The Smuggled Gold Bars

3rd March, 2021 · admin

RFE/RL’s Tajik Service March 2, 2021 A high-ranking Afghan politician has found himself at the center of a scandal in Tajikistan involving $15 million in cash and some 90 kilos of gold bars seized from smugglers at the Dushanbe airport in November. Mohammad Mirza Katawazai, the deputy chairman of the Afghan parliament, angrily rejects the

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Posted in Corruption, Media, Other News | Tags: Mohammad Mirza Katawazai, smuggling, Tajikistan-Afghanistan Relations |
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Watchdog Says U.S. Wasted Billions On Unused, Abandoned Assets In Afghanistan

1st March, 2021 · admin

By Radio Free Afghanistan March 1, 2021 A U.S. government watchdog says the United States has wasted about $2.4 billion on assets such as buildings and vehicles that were either unused or abandoned, had not been used for their intended purposes, had deteriorated, or were destroyed. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), which oversees

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Posted in Corruption, Economic News, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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Afghan Ministry of Interior confirms 186 officials dismissed for corruption

21st February, 2021 · admin

Ariana: According to the Ministry, cases of officials charged with corruption and extortion of truck drivers on highways have been referred to the Attorney General’s Office for further investigation. The move followed a three-week strike by truck drivers over the corruption allegations. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Corruption, Economic News |
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Amid Poverty And Discrimination, Afghan Women Beg For Survival

19th February, 2021 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 19, 2021 Parwana, an Afghan mother of five, begs on the streets of the southeastern Afghan city of Ghazni. She says seeking charity is her only means of survival since her husband, a policeman, was killed by the Taliban two years ago. “When my husband was killed, I sent the

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Posted in Afghan Women, Corruption, Economic News, Taliban |
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Iranian drivers demand compensation from Kabul after border fire

18th February, 2021 · admin

1TV: Hundreds of vehicles were burnt in a massive blaze that tore through the customs post last week. Iranian drivers say nearly a hundred of vehicles belonged to them. One of the drivers, as quoted by Fars news agency, criticized customs officials for stopping his vehicles for six days while usually it would be released

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Posted in Corruption, Economic News, Iran-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Ashraf Ghani Government, Herat |
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Corruption, Negligence Witnessed During Herat Customs Fire

17th February, 2021 · admin

Tolo News: The joint task team made up of members of the private sector and the House of Representatives, which went to the Islam Qala customs area to investigate the cause of the fire that started on Saturday, said that a “non-standard method of sampling of liquid natural gas” by the Afghanistan National Standards Authority.

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Posted in Corruption, Economic News | Tags: Ashraf Ghani Government, Herat |
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