epa02317559 Afghan customers wait outside Afghanistan's biggest bank, Kabul Bank in Kabul, western Afghanistan 05 September 2010 for their turn to empty their accounts even as officials tried to assure depositors that the country's largest private bank was not in danger of collapsing. The run on Kabul Bank began 01 September 2010, a day after major US newspapers reported that two of its top executives were to be replaced by the central bank for allegedly lending 160 million US dollars to its chairman and cronies. EPA/S. SABAWOON
La banca centrale dell’Afghanistan ha reso noto che i talebani hanno consegnato oltre 12,3 milioni di dollari in contanti e diversi lingotti d’oro recuperati dalle case di ex funzionari del governo, tra cui l’ex vicepresidente Amrullah Saleh.
“Il denaro recuperato proveniva da alti funzionari del governo precedente e da un certo numero di agenzie di sicurezza nazionale che tenevano contanti e oro nelle loro case”, si legge in una nota.