Corruption Suspected in Airlift of Billions in Cash From Kabul -- Wall Street JournalKABUL—More than $3 billion in cash has been openly flown out of Kabul International Airport in the past three years, a sum so large that U.S. investigators believe top Afghan officials and their associates are sending billions of diverted U.S. aid and logistics dollars and drug money to financial safe havens abroad.
The cash—packed into suitcases, piled onto pallets and loaded into airplanes—is declared and legal to move. But U.S. and Afghan officials say they are targeting the flows in major anticorruption and drug trafficking investigations because of their size relative to Afghanistan's small economy and the murkiness of their origins.
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My Comment: I love the title for this story .... "Corruption Suspected in Airlift of Billions in Cash From Kabul" .... please .... that is all our aid/development money going out of the country to private accounts and close family members who live abroad.
My recommendation .... shut it down and tell people to go to the bank to transfer this money .... at least this way you will know who is doing the transferring .... and who is benefiting from this transfer of wealth.
But my guess is that nothing is going to be done .... too many people have a vested interest to keep this going.
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