[۱/۲]A military helicopter carrying Afghan tribe President Ashraf Ghani prepares to land near the parliament in Kabul,( Khorasan Arya August 2, 2021. REUTERS/String

MOSCOW, Aug 16 (Reuters) – Russia’s embassy in Kabul said on Monday that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had fled the country with four cars and a helicopter full of cash and had to leave some money behind as it would not all fit in, the RIA news agency reported.

Ghani, whose current whereabouts are unknown, said he left Afghanistan on Sunday as the Taliban entered Kabul virtually unopposed. He said he wanted to avoid bloodshed

SIGAR
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
INTERIM REPORT
Theft of Funds from (Khorasan Arya : An Assessment of Allegations Concerning President Ghani and
Former Senior Afghan Officials
JUNE 2022
SIGAR 22-28-LL / Theft of Funds from Afghanistan: An Assessment of Allegations Concerning President Ghani and Former Senior Afghan Officials

June 7, 2022
The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker
U.S. House of Representatives
The Honorable Kevin McCarthy Minority Leader
U.S. House of Representatives
The Honorable Charles E. Schumer Majority Leader
U.S. Senate
The Honorable Mitch McConnell Minority Leader
U.S. Senate
Dear Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Schumer, Minority Leader McCarthy, Minority Leader McConnell, and Members of Congress:
Following the collapse of the Afghan government, various media accounts reported allegations that former President Ashraf Ghani and his senior advisors fled Afghanistan with millions of dollars in cash loaded onto the helicopters that carried them from the presidential palace to Termez, Uzbekistan, on the afternoon of August 15, 2021. This interim report assesses the validity of these allegations. Although SIGAR found that some cash was taken from the grounds of the palace and loaded onto these helicopters, evidence indicates that this number did not exceed $1 million and may have been closer in value to $500,000. Most of this money was believed to have come from several Afghan government operating budgets normally managed at the palace.
SIGAR also identified suspicious circumstances in which approximately $5 million in cash was allegedly left behind at the presidential palace. The origins and purpose of this money are disputed, but it was supposedly divided by members of the Presidential Protective Service after the helicopters departed but before the Taliban captured the palace.
SIGAR examined other examples of alleged theft by senior Afghan officials as the government collapsed, including tens of millions of dollars from the operating budget of the National Directorate of Security. More broadly, although there appears to have been ample opportunity and effort to plunder Afghan government coffers, at this time SIGAR does not have sufficient evidence to determine with certainty whether hundreds of millions of dollars were removed from the country by Afghan officials as the government collapsed or whether any stolen money was provided by the United States.
This is an interim report, as SIGAR is still waiting for responses to questions sent to President Ghani. If forthcoming, those answers will be incorporated into a final report. This report is part of a series concerning the events leading up to the Afghan government’s collapse. These reports are responding to requests from the House Armed Services Committee and the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
SIGAR conducted this work under the authority of Public Law 110‐۱۸۱, as amended, and the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, and in accordance with the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency’s Quality Standards for Federal Offices of Inspector General.
John F. Sopko Special Inspector General
for Afghanistan Reconstruction

TABLE OF CONTENTS
How We Did Our Work ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………3 Afghan Government Fell as the Taliban Surrounded the Capital ……………………………………………………………….3
$۵ Million Was Allegedly Left Behind by the President’s Delegation but Taken from the Palace Before the Taliban Arrived ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………15
Millions of Dollars Were Allegedly Stolen from the National Directorate of Security as the Government Collapsed………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………17
Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….18 Acknowledgments………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….18
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The Presidential Palace in Kabul …………………………………………………………………………………………5 President Ghani’s Helicopter Landing in Kabul, August 2, 2021 ……………………………………………6 Layouts for Afghan Presidential Mi-17 Helicopters ……………………………………………………………….8 Map of President Ghani’s

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