Kabul International Airport. (Photo from Wikimedia)
$10 Million Is Smuggled Out Of Afghanistan Daily, Official Says -- L.A. Times
The culprits are drug cartels and corrupt officials and businesses, Finance Minister Omar Zakhilwal says. U.S. and Afghan officials believe much of the cash is going to the Taliban.
Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan - An estimated $10 million a day is smuggled out of Afghanistan, most of it through Kabul's international airport, rather than through secret routes over the mountains or across the desert, the country's finance minister said Sunday.
The amount of corruption, both by public officials and officials of private companies, makes him embarrassed to acknowledge while traveling that he is an Afghan, Finance Minister Omar Zakhilwal said.
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My Comment: To move out that amount of cash .... everyone must be involved. This $190 million figure for 10 days is what is known .... I can only speculate on what is not known .... and worse .... what that money is being used for.
Money is the mother's milk for every insurgency .... cut that off you will be able to cut off the insurgency. Unfortunately, I suspect that the corruption is so deep in Afghanistan .... it probably involves everyone.