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Afghanistan
Ghani's 'ex-bodyguard' claims he has video proving exiled president left Kabul with bags stuffed with money: report
2021-10-10
[RT] The alleged bodyguard for former Afghanistan's Caped President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, ex-president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. When Biden abandoned the country left with a helicopter, four cars, and part of the national treasury...
told the British media he has security camera footage to disprove the US-backed leader’s denials of taking bags of money with him when he fled the country in August.

"I have a recording which shows that an individual at the Afghan Bank brought a lot of money to Ghani before he left," the man which UK’s Daily Mail newspaper identified as Brigadier General Piraz Ata Sharifi told the outlet in an article published on Friday. "Hundreds of millions, perhaps billions of dollars. There were many big bags, and they were heavy. It was not rice."

Ghani and his family fled the presidential palace and flew to the United Arab Emirates on August 15, as Talibs entered Kabul. When he finally made a public statement three days later, he denied reports that he had abandoned his post and taken stolen cash with him, saying he left the country with only the clothes on his back to "avoid bloodshed" that would result from a power struggle. He issued another denial in September, saying corruption accusations against him were "completely false."

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