KABUL: Taliban is investigating the account of a former member of the Afghan government with a high ranking to examine bad profits, said officials said Tuesday.
Investigation can lead to freezing of assets and accounts of former civil servants, ministers and parliamentarians, an official at Da Afghanistan Bank told AFP, asking not to be named.
Private bank managers confirmed the “Taliban auditor” team had been deployed to the organization to examine the accounts of former elected government officials.
Corruption was widespread and rampant under the administration of former President of Ashraf Ghani, and tens of millions of dollars in assistance money was believed to have absorbed a public wallet.
Ghani himself was accused of taking millions with him when he fled to Abu Dhabi on August 15 when the Taliban entered Kabul, but he had denied the claim and said he was ready to prove his innocence.
On Tuesday, some Taliban officials posted videos on their social media accounts who claimed to show millions of cash and gold ingots recovered from the Panjshir residence of former Vice President Amrullah Saleh.
Video, which cannot be independently verified, shows Taliban fighters sitting on the floor and counting cash and gold seems to be found in a suitcase.
One fighters said they found around $ 100,000 a day after Panjshir fell to the Taliban, and further $ 6.2 million and 18 gold ingots in the next search.
Saleh hiding in Panjshir after the Taliban took Kabul, and remote Highland Valley was the last province to fall to the hardliner of Islam.
Investigation of the possibility of illegal assets came when Afghanistan was in the grip of the major money crisis, with limited people to draw equivalent to only $ 200 per day from a personal account – and had to queue for hours even to do that.
Even before the takeover of the Taliban, government salaries are often paid late – and in cases of rural workers there are backlogs for months.
People turned to sell their household items to raise money to pay for important needs, and the crowded used goods market had mushroomed in most downtown.
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have stopped Afghan access to funding, while the United States has also freezed cash stored in Kabul’s reserves.
Ajmal Ahmady, a former acting governor of the Afghan Central Bank, Tweet last week that the country no longer has access of around $ 9 billion in assistance, loans and assets.