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Ghani unlikely to have fled Kabul with millions in cash: Report

Afghan men stand next to a torn poster of former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the Kabul airport, August 16, 2021, after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan's 20-year war, as thousands of people mobbed the city's airport trying to flee the Taliban group's feared hardline brand of Islamist rule [File: Wakil Kohsar/AFP]

Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani almost certainly did not flee Kabul with millions of dollars that disappeared during the Taliban’s military takeover of the capital city, according to a US government watchdog’s interim report published on Monday.

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) in its interim report said that $5m went missing from the presidential palace and tens of millions of dollars were taken from the vault at the National Directorate of Security.

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