Kabul Bank in Afghanistan missing hundreds of millions, IMF supervising, now bombed

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2/19/11, "Eighteen dead in Taliban attack on Afghan bank," Citizen Online (South Africa), by Samoon Miakhail

"It happened when Taliban suicide bombers burst into a branch of Kabul Bank in the city and detonated their devices. There was also a hail of gunfire as the attack unfolded."...

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• Reference: 2/16/11, "Kabul Bank faces receivership after IMF visit," BBC

Hundreds of millions missing. "Among three senior Kabul bank executives and shareholders under investigation is the brother of Afghanistan's First Vice-President Mohammad Qasim Fahim."... Mahmoud Karzai, brother of President Hamid Karzai is a major shareholder but "not being investigated."...

• US federal prosecutors are however investigating Mahmoud Karzai for criminal activities.

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