KABUL (SW): The Attorney General Office has confirmed taking into custody three high-ranking officials associated with the Ministries of Finance and Mines and Petroleum blamed for taking bribe.
Basir Azizi, AGO Spokesman told a press conference Saturday in Kabul that the two officials have been arrested from eastern Logar province.
He said that the official at the Ministry of Finance have been arrested for allegedly taking $ 165, 000 bribe and the Director Mines and Petroleum has been arrested for taking nearly $ 10,000 as bribe.
The spokesman added that the investigation continues.
Earlier, Salim Saleh, Spokesman for Logar governor, told SalamWatandar that the Director of Mines and Petroleum was accused of illegal extraction of mines in Logar and was arrested.
Two weeks ago, a committee comprised of representatives from National Security Directorate (NDS), provincial council and police were tasked by Logar governor to probe into the corruption taking place at the Mines and Petroleum department in Logar.
Adalat Abdul Rahimzai, Deputy for provincial council and one of the members at the committee, said that their findings confirmed existence of corruption at the department.
Speaking at the press conference, he said that admin manager for the Ministry of Urban Development Affairs has also been arrested. He added that this person was accused of taking afn 2000,000 as bribe.
He further added that the case of Hayatullah Deyani, former head of Pashtanay Bank has also been completed.
Hayatullah Deyani and 12 more former staff members of the Pashtanay Bank were imprisoned four years ago as they were charged of counterfeiting documents, embezzlement and negligence at their works for not repaying people’s funds worth $ one millions and afn 1500,000.
AGO Spokesman Azizi said that the former head of Pashtanay Bank was sentenced based on the verdicts by three courts to 10 years imprisonment and fined for afn 1 billion cash.
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