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MoI Arrests Meat Contractor On Charges Of ‘Stealing $7.5M’

Security forces have arrested a big food contractor for the Ministry of Interior (MoI) on charges of "stealing AFs600 million ($7.5 million)" from meat supply in one year by over-billing the security agency, sources said.

Sources told TOLOnews that police have arrested at least 22 individuals, among them higher and lower rank officials of the ministry, who collaborated in the purchase of meat with Hajji Mohammad Rasa, the contractor, last year.

The total amount of contract between the Interior Ministry and the contractor company is estimated AFs1.2 billion (around $15 million).

According to the sources, the owner of the company and its staff members had forged the stamp of the Ministry of Interior and were collaborating with police commanders in provinces to conduct the "embezzlement".

The company’s name is Shuja Abdara and Hamid.

Based on leaked documents, the company was supplying 5,000 kilograms of meat to the national police in a province, but they were receiving 10,000 kilograms of meat in bills by police commanders. In some cases, when police commanders were not prepared to do so, the company was using a fake stamp to do its job. 

In a single embezzlement registered in Nangarhar, there are 57,413 kilograms of meat on the bill, but the delivery has been reported 92,648 kilograms.

The Interior Ministry has requested the Attorney General’s Office to slap travel ban on at least eight of the suspects, including Haris Siraj, the acting head of the Interior Ministry’s logistics department; Nasir Zaid, head of the finance department; Mirwais Janbaz, acting head of logistics department and five other senior and lower officials.

The documents show that majority of the amount was embezzled in Kabul, Parwan, Nangarhar, Kapisa, Punjsher, Baghlan, Nuristan and Laghman provinces.

MoI Arrests Meat Contractor On Charges Of ‘Stealing $7.5M’

Ministry of Interior has asked the Attorney General’s Office to slap travel ban on at least eight suspects.

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Security forces have arrested a big food contractor for the Ministry of Interior (MoI) on charges of "stealing AFs600 million ($7.5 million)" from meat supply in one year by over-billing the security agency, sources said.

Sources told TOLOnews that police have arrested at least 22 individuals, among them higher and lower rank officials of the ministry, who collaborated in the purchase of meat with Hajji Mohammad Rasa, the contractor, last year.

The total amount of contract between the Interior Ministry and the contractor company is estimated AFs1.2 billion (around $15 million).

According to the sources, the owner of the company and its staff members had forged the stamp of the Ministry of Interior and were collaborating with police commanders in provinces to conduct the "embezzlement".

The company’s name is Shuja Abdara and Hamid.

Based on leaked documents, the company was supplying 5,000 kilograms of meat to the national police in a province, but they were receiving 10,000 kilograms of meat in bills by police commanders. In some cases, when police commanders were not prepared to do so, the company was using a fake stamp to do its job. 

In a single embezzlement registered in Nangarhar, there are 57,413 kilograms of meat on the bill, but the delivery has been reported 92,648 kilograms.

The Interior Ministry has requested the Attorney General’s Office to slap travel ban on at least eight of the suspects, including Haris Siraj, the acting head of the Interior Ministry’s logistics department; Nasir Zaid, head of the finance department; Mirwais Janbaz, acting head of logistics department and five other senior and lower officials.

The documents show that majority of the amount was embezzled in Kabul, Parwan, Nangarhar, Kapisa, Punjsher, Baghlan, Nuristan and Laghman provinces.

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