Aides To Afghan President Karzai Are Stopping All Corruption Cases That Involves His Supporters

Hamid Karzai at the opening of a three-day anti-corruption conference in Kabul (December 15, 2009). Photograph: Handout/AFP/Getty Images

U.S. Officials Say Karzai Aides Are Derailing Corruption Cases Involving Elite -- Washington Post

Top officials in President Hamid Karzai's government have repeatedly derailed corruption investigations of politically connected Afghans, according to U.S. officials who have provided Afghanistan's authorities with wiretapping technology and other assistance in efforts to crack down on endemic graft.

In recent months, the U.S. officials said, Afghan prosecutors and investigators have been ordered to cross names off case files, prevent senior officials from being placed under arrest and disregard evidence against executives of a major financial firm suspected of helping the nation's elite move millions of dollars overseas.

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My Comment: Talk about being prophetic in my last post. We now know who are the corrupt officials in the Karzai government .... hint .... it starts with the top.

No wonder last years elections were so flagrantly abused, fixed, and corrupted .... too many in power had billions to lose personally if they were to be kicked out by the Afghan electorate.