Republican members of the House Oversight and Reform Committee are urging the Biden administration to launch an investigation into allegations that former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled Kabul with duffel bags of money.
Ranking GOP committee member Rep. James Comer (Ky.) and Rep. Glenn Grothman (Wisc.), the ranking Republican on the Subcommittee on National Security, expressed concerns that Ghani may have “embezzled from accounts funded by U.S. taxpayer funds” in a letter addressed to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday.
“The United States must do everything in its power to seize any illicitly gained funds that were corruptly embezzled by President Ghani,” Comer and Grothman wrote. “If he diverted funds from their intended purposes, the U.S. should bring him to justice.”
“Not only did President Ghani flee the country of Afghanistan prematurely and contribute to the rapid fall of the American-backed democratic government in Kabul, but he brought with him duffle bags full of cash totaling $169 million dollars,” the lawmakers added.
The congressmen described Ghani as “a coward and a grifter.” They noted that American tax dollars had funded $145 billion in aid to Afghanistan over the past two decades, along with another $837 billion spent on funding war efforts, arguing that if Ghani embezzled any funds from the Afghan government he was “likely embezzling U.S. taxpayer funds.”
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