After a year, former Afghanistan President Gani defended him to escape: denied carrying a lot of cash

According to the Associated Press reported on the 15th, on the eve of the first anniversary of the Taliban, former Afghan President Ashlav Guni defended his decision to escape at the time, saying that he was to avoid the shame of surrender to Taliban's armed forces.

Former Afghan President Ashlav Gunu Source: People's Vision

Gani told the United States Cable Television News (CNN) that on the morning of August 15, 2021, when Taliban armed forces surrounded the capital of Afghanistan Kabul, his guards had disappeared, and he was the last person to stay in the presidential palace. He said that the former Afghan government's defense minister told him earlier that day that Kabul could not be defended.

In this interview, Guni provided more details. He claimed that a chef in the presidential palace had been poisoned by $ 100,000 to death, making him feel that the environment around him was no longer safe.

Gani said: "The reason I leave is that I don't want Taliban and their supporters to have the opportunity to humiliate an Afghan president again and let him sign a document to transfer the legal government. I have never been afraid."

Former Afghan President Ashlav Gunu Source: People's Vision

Critics said that Guni suddenly secretly left on August 15, leaving the city unattended. At that time, the United States and NATO troops were in the final stage of the disorderly withdrawal from Afghanistan.

During the interview, Guni once again denied a continuous allegations that the allegations said that he and other officials carried millions of dollars in cash when they escaped by helicopter.

According to today's Russian TV (RT) reports, the earliest news from the Russian Embassy in the Kabul said that Guni took away cash full of 4 cars and 1 helicopter when Gani left Afghanistan. The Russian News Agency pointed out that the Russian Embassy spokesman Nikita Irkako said at the time that in fact, Guni took too much money to leave some of them because the plane could not be installed. The Afghanistan embassy in Tajikistan later demanded arrest of Guni, saying he stole US $ 169 million from the treasury.

Three days after leaving Afghanistan, Guni denied a public statement on a public statement that he had discarded his job and took away the stolen money, saying that he was only wearing clothes when he left Afghanistan. "". He denied again in September that he was "completely wrong" for his corruption allegations.

Last October, a man who claimed to be a former President Gini "Bodyguard", Piraz ATA Sharifi, said in an interview with the British "Daily Mail" that his monitoring held Video can prove that Guni did carry a lot of cash with Afghanistan in August.

The Associated Press said that in a report released last week, a supervisory agency in the U.S. Congress believes that Gini and his senior consultants are unlikely to use the helicopter at the time of escape to transport a lot of cash.

Former Afghan President Ashlav Gunu Source: People's Vision

In this report, the office of the Afghanistan reconstruction Special Inspector said: "Given that they leave in a hurry, the focus is on passengers rather than the goods, the effective load and performance restrictions of the helicopter, and the detailed descriptions of the ground and air witnesses are always consistent These all show that the cash on the helicopter is only a little more $ 500,000. "The office has been trying to supervise the huge expenditure of the United States in the Afghan war for many years.

The agency also stated that "in the chaos of Afghanistan in Taliban, the possibility of a large number of dollars in the Afghanistan government lost a lot of dollars is still very high." Among them, the "millions of dollars" in the Presidential Palace in Afghanistan and the National Security Agency's vault. However, the agency could not determine how much money was stolen and who stole it.

(Edit: ZLQ)

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