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US Sanctions 2 Former Afghan Republic Officials For Transnational Corruption

Last updated: 2023/12/12 at 4:14 PM
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On Monday, December 11, america introduced the sanctioning of two former Afghan authorities officers for “their in depth roles in transnational corruption,” which allegedly misappropriated hundreds of thousands of {dollars} from authorities contracts supposed to assist Afghan safety forces. 

The 2 former officers, Mir Rahman Rahmani and his son, Ajmal Rahmani, have been nominated for sanctions by the Particular Inspector Normal for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) below the World Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act. The 2 have been duly sanctioned this week by the U.S. Treasury Division’s Workplace of International Belongings Management (OFAC).

Mir Rahman Rahmani served within the decrease home of the Afghan parliament, the Wolesi Jirga, since 2010 and was elected speaker in June 2019. His son, Ajmal, was additionally a legislator. Reuters characterised him as “nicknamed ‘Armored Ajmal’ for his enterprise promoting bulletproof automobiles to the Kabul elite.”

“In almost each step of their corruption scheme, the Rahmanis created alternatives to counterpoint themselves on the expense of others,” a U.S. Treasury press launch said, happening to stipulate a scheme involving gasoline contracts for the Afghan Nationwide Protection and Safety Forces (ANDSF). 

The discharge identifies 4 main components of the corrupt scheme, beginning with contract inflation by which the 2 males used their hidden management of assorted corporations to rig bidding processes to remove precise competitors and drive up the worth of contracts awarded. Corporations run by the Rahmanis additionally engaged in import tax fraud, twisting a system supposed to permit restricted quantities of products to be imported tax free and thereby robbing the Afghan authorities of hundreds of thousands in tax income.

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The Rahmanis then, the U.S. authorities alleges, “additional bolstered their corrupt gasoline earnings by under-delivering on their corporations’ gasoline contracts.” They reportedly bribed d Afghan Nationwide Military (ANA) personnel to cover their non-delivery of gasoline. Lastly, the press launch cites “parliamentary corruption,” noting that the youthful Rahmani gave voters presents and cash and “paid $1.6 million to some members of the Afghan Unbiased Election Fee to inflate the outcomes of the election by hundreds of votes.” The older Rahmani, in the meantime, “paid hundreds of thousands of {dollars} to a number of Members of Parliament all through the parliamentary speakership elections in 2018 to safe their votes for his bid for Speaker of Parliament.”

Particular Inspector Normal John F. Sopko in a press release stated, “Gas is liquid gold in a warfare zone, and nowhere was this extra evident than in Afghanistan, the place it was topic to theft, diversion, and sale on the black market… No commodity was extra worthwhile or consequential — each gallon stolen was one much less gallon for American, NATO and Afghan forces, and solely made the Taliban stronger. That’s why gasoline theft was such a serious focus of SIGAR investigations.”

In August 2020, a yr earlier than the dramatic collapse of the Afghan Republic authorities, Al Jazeera reported, as a part of its Cyprus Paper investigation, that the older Rahmani had not solely purchased Cypriot citizenship for himself and his household but in addition acquired passports for St. Kitts and Nevis, by way of citizenship by funding (CBI) applications that provide quick tracked passports to international locales for the wealthy. 

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In outlining the sanctioning of the Rahmanis, the U.S. Treasury Division famous, “Corrupt officers, just like the Rahmanis, purchase and make the most of international citizenships to conduct enterprise all over the world.” The Treasury Division designated a complete of 44 entities alongside the 2 Rahmanis, together with 21 Germany corporations, eight Cypriot corporations, six Emirati corporations, two Afghan corporations, two Austrian corporations, one Dutch firm, and one Bulgarian firm allegedly managed by or appearing on behalf of Ajmal Rahmani, plus three extra corporations (two German and one Dutch) that have been nested below a few of the corporations sanctioned. 

The sanctions successfully block any U.S. property held by the Rahmanis and forestall U.S. entities from coping with them. It’s not clear from present reporting the place the Rahmanis are. They reportedly fled Kabul on the day it fell, flying to Islamabad.

As information of the sanctions broke, Taliban officers took the chance to argue that america had supported such officers for 20 years. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said, “This sanction is on two individuals who belong to the previous administration of Kabul. It’s linked to the U.S. Previously 20 years, the U.S. supported these individuals who have been corrupt and have been seizing the cash of the folks of Afghanistan and even the U.S. cash by way of such actions.”

Arguably, corruption comparable to that outlined within the sanctions weakened the Afghan Republic irreparably, paving the best way for its collapse and the Taliban’s return to energy. Corruption was all the time a grievance through the 20 years the U.S. was concerned militarily in Afghanistan, and one thing SIGAR – tasked with oversight of how U.S. taxpayer cash was spent amid the warfare – shouted about continually since its 2008 creation.

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A number of the schemes talked about within the Treasury Division’s announcement date to 2014. Why did it take almost a decade for them to be uncovered? And what could have turned out otherwise if the Rahmanis, and others like them, had been held to account way back?

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