WJ Refers 4 Officials to AGO in Embassy Wall Corruption Case
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America’s Longest War COVID-19 outbreak Page 2 | NATIONAL Kabul Herat Nangarhar Balkh 36 / 21 37 / 24 39 / 28 40 / 27 Your Gateway to Afghanistan & the Region Monday, July 20, 2020 Issue No. 810 www.heartofasia.af 10 afs WJ refers 4 officials to AGO in embassy wall corruption case Ambassador to the US Roya Police arrest 16 Rahmani should be referred to the criminals in Kabul AGO for more investigation. “The above mentioned individuals if The Afghan National Police (ANP) present in the country should be put operations team has arrested 16 on Exist Control List and individuals suspects in Kabul and its surrounding accused in this corruption case and districts, the capital police said on stay in the foreign should be brought Sunday. to the country with the support of “Sixteen suspects involved in different Interpol.” criminal cases were arrested by ANP in Earlier, Meshrano Jirga decided Kabul city Police Districts and districts to refer four government officials, on outskirts of Kabul province within including two presidential advisors, the last several days,” the police said to the Attorney General Office (AGO) in a statement. over corruption in reconstruction The arrestees were taken to the Kabul of the Afghan Embassy wall in police headquarters for screening and Washington. possible legal process, the statement According to Pajhwok Afghan added. News investigative report, the The ANP also seized three rounds of Afghanistan Embassy in the United weapons, a knife, a stolen oil truck and States reconstructed its boundary a stolen sedan during the operations, wall measuring 70 meters at a cost that were part of preventive measures Wolesi Jirga’s (WJ) Justice on Exit Control List and arrest those in which massive corruption took of around 1,825,839 US dollars after being adopted to ensure a high level Commission has referred four outside the country with the support place a decision was reached after its reconstruction for $88,000 was of security and safety in the national people, including two presidential of Interpol. hearing concerned authorities and rejected by the embassy. capital with nearly 5 million population. advisors and Afghanistan’s In an official letter No. 139 on July, it was decided that the case should For building the 70-meter wall, ambassador to the US, to the 19, 2020 of Wolesi Jirga’s Justice be referred to the AGO for more KADCON Corporation has been given Attorney General Office (AGO) in Commission a copy of which investigation and inspection. $1,586,000, VIKA Company received connection to corruption allegations available with Pajhwok Afghan In the letter explained that former $12,750 for survey, ECS received in the reconstruction of embassy News says after hearing from Finance Ministers Humayon $12,250 for soil test, KCE received wall in Washington DC. officials of the Ministry of Foreign Qayyumi, presidential Advisor $64,839 for technical advices and The Commission also demanded to Affairs regarding the reconstruction Sargand, Finance Ministry Advisor DLA Piper received $150 for making put the names of accused officials of embassy wall in Washington DC Yama Nizam and Afghanistan’s contracts and legal consultation. Afghanistan’s Afghan dried fruit Further reports of Australian war Sphageeza Cricket consignment lands League to Begin on in China crimes in Afghanistan emerge September 13 in Kabul The first consignment of Afghanistan’s transit trade items has reached China As the nation awaits the findings of The seventh edition of the through the Shahid Beheshti port an investigation into war crimes in Shpageeza Cricket League in Chabahar, a media report said on Afghanistan, there’s new evidence will begin on September 13, Sunday. that Australian Forces killed up to 10 unarmed Afghan civilians during a Afghanistan Cricket Board said on Afghanistan’s first transit shipment of 2012 raid in Kandahar Province. Saturday. dried fruit was sent to Tianjin Port in China, Mehr News Agency quoted a Australian sources and Afghan The tournament will run for two senior Iranian official as saying. witnesses have told the ABC, that weeks and the final will happen Behrouz Aghaei, the director-general both civilians and members of the on September 25, with all the of Sistan and Baluchestan Ports and Taliban were shot during the raid, into executing an elderly, unarmed back to SAS headquarters in Perth, matches set to be played at Kabul Maritime Organisation, said the cargo including a group of unarmed man as part of an initiation, or to be used as a novelty beer drinking had been sent to the Indian port of villagers near a tractor. Cricket Stadium. “blooding ritual”. vessel. Mundra via Chabahar. These are not the first allegations The tournament has six teams - It was reported that on the same Braden Chapman, the man behind Afghanistan also sent three transit of this kind. Earlier this year the mission, an unarmed Afghan civilian the story, says he was warned by Amo Sharks, Band-e Amir Dragons, trade consignments to India via the ABC released a documentary called with a prosthetic leg was targeted another longer-serving member of Boost Defenders, Kabul Eagles, Shahid Beheshti port last month, the ‘The Killing Fields’ which detailed and callously hunted down by the forces, shortly after joining the Mis Ainak Knights and Spin Ghar official added. further atrocities, including three alleged incidents that a former SAS members of the SAS team. The man squadron in Uruzgan province that Tigers. Mis Ainak Kights won the signals intelligence officer, who was was allegedly then kicked off a cliff at times troops weren’t necessarily tournament last year. deployed with the 3 Squadron SAS while handcuffed, causing severe operating within the expected The broadcasting rights agreement in 2012, called ‘murder.’ injuries but not killing him. A senior guidelines. Chapman further alleges for the tournament was bagged One of the reported incidents soldier allegedly then directed that Australian troops also destroyed by National Radio Television of involved a soldier on his first others to “get him out of his misery.” people’s homes and infrastructure, The man was allegedly executed and blew up private cars and shot Afghanistan (RTA). ... P3 deployment to Afghanistan being pressured by higher-ranking officers his plastic leg souvenired and taken animals. ... P2 July 20, 2020 Heart of Asia NATIONAL MONDAY 2 [email protected] fb/heart of asia twitter/@heartofasiapost Further reports... By EMRAN FEROZ International pressure After the programme aired, international organisation, Human Rights Watch sent a letter to the Australian Defence Afghan Warlord’s Promotion Highlights Minister, Linda Reynolds calling for the Defence Department to reexamine previously dismissed cases of alleged summary executions and other the Bankruptcy of America’s Longest War war crimes in Afghanistan in light of new evidence. And more recently, footage emerged of an SAS When Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and soldier hunting down an unarmed Afghan civilian, Abdullah Abdullah, his main political standing over him while he is defenceless on the opponent, signed a power-sharing deal in May, ground, asking his fellow officer “You want me to it ended eight months of bitter post-election drop this cunt,” then executing him. dispute. It also came with a disturbing price tag, The long-awaited IDGAF Report one hashed out among rounds of backroom The Inspector-General of the Australian Defence deals, tense negotiations, and desperate Force (IGADF) has spent the past four years U.S. attempts to keep the government from investigating reports of war crimes committed imploding. Abdul Rashid Dostum, Ghani’s by Australian special forces in Afghanistan. vice president until last year and one of the The investigation involves an assessment of more country’s most notorious warlords, demanded than 55 separate incidents of alleged breaches of the ‘rules of war’ between 2005 and 2016, and a promotion to the rank of marshal, only so far, more than 330 people have so far given awarded twice before in Afghan history. Ghani, evidence to the inquiry. who’d long vowed to clean out the warlords, The IGADF report is expected to be delivered complied. within weeks. Human Rights watch has also called Dostum, whose militias are believed to have on the Defence Minister to release the full IGADF carried out one of the most notorious war report when it becomes available, in the public crimes in modern Afghan history during the interest, and to ensure appropriate accountability. early days of the U.S.-led invasion, embodies “such accusations will not harm the Marshal.” large parts of the country to armed militias— It also urged the Australian government to cease much of what’s gone wrong in contemporary According to an official of Ghani’s government, such as Dostum’s—with negligible government all legal action against those who reported these Afghanistan—and especially the failed promise “the President issued Dostum’s promotion, oversight. incidents, including whistleblowers, lawyers, and that the U.S. invasion would help create a but it was not his [Ghani’s] decision. It was Warlords have existed throughout journalists acting in the public interest, should cleaner, more transparent, more democratic part of an agreement which was proposed by Afghanistan’s history, but they reached a peak be dropped. state. Dostum still stands accused of torturing Abdullah,” he told Foreign Policy. in the 1990s as different factions, including Whistleblowers are punished, not protected and ordering the rape of a political rival while “Bestowing on Dostum the title of marshal— Dostum’s, fought each other for control of There are growing fears here and internationally that the Australian government is failing to in office as recently as 2016.