Michael Hughes: The United States handed bags of cash and awarded ministry posts to the most brutal warlords on earth in Afghanistan during the early post-9/11 era. The United States, for years, looked the other away as the Karzai family and tons of other Afghan government officials transferred millions of dollars into bank accounts in places
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan August 15, 2019 U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan John Bass has said he is “disturbed by reports” that a former bank manager convicted of multimillion-dollar fraud has been moved into house arrest from prison in exchange for allegedly making a large campaign donation to the incumbent’s presidential-election campaign. “Countless Afghans suffered
Tolo News: President Ashraf Ghani has ordered the release of Khalilullah Frozi, the ex-CEO of Kabul Bank, who is accused of having a key role in the collapse of the bank that once Afghanistan’s largest financial institution. In 2015, President Ghani ordered that Mr. Frozi should serve out his full 10 years in prison and
Khaama Press: Noor said Mr. Farnood became a victim of conspiracies, was jailed and his properties, assets, and fortune were confiscated. He also expressed hopes that the circumstances surrounding the death of Mr. Farnood would be ascertained. Kabul Bank was one of Afghanistan’s largest private financial institutions founded in 2004 by Sherkhan Farnood, who was an
Tolo News: President Ashraf Ghani’s deputy spokesman Sayed Zafar Hashemi said that the Smart City housing contract has been canceled as part of the Presidential Palace’s new decisions on the controversial deal. He added that Ghani fired his legal advisor Abdul Ali Mohammadi and ordered that the court’s decision should be implemented on Khalilullah Frozi, one
Tolo News: The team tasked to investigate the controversial Smart City housing contract said Tuesday that it sent its report to President Ashraf Ghani one month ago but the Presidential Palace has not made public its details so far. The findings of the team reveal that the president’s former legal adviser Abdul Ali Mohammadi, Kabul Bank’s