Monday, January 31, 2011

The Great Afghan Bank Heist

Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker
In the spring of 2009, as the reëlection campaign of President Hamid Karzai was gathering momentum, a group of prominent Afghan businessmen met for breakfast at the presidential palace to see the candidate. Among them was Khalil Ferozi, the chief executive officer of Kabul Bank, a fast and freewheeling financial institution that had brought together some of the most colorful and politically well-connected Afghans in the country, including one of President Karzai’s own brothers.

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/01/31/the_great_afghan_bank_heist_249687.html

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