Afghanistan: three former senators jailed in bribery case
Anwar Bashliq, Azim Qoyash, Liyaqatullah Babakarkhil responsible for taking lots of greenbacks in bribes, the government said
Three former individuals of the higher residence of Afghanistan’s parliament have been surpassed down jail sentences in a bribery case on Saturday.
Mohammad Anwar Bashliq, Mohammad Azim Qoyash, and Liyaqatullah Babakarkhil withstand 10 years in prison and ought to pay a great of $40,000 each, in keeping with a ruling via way of means of the number one courtroom docket of the Anti-Corruption Justice Center.
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The 3 men, all former individuals of the Meshrano Jirga, or House of Elders, have been observed responsible for taking $60,000 in bribes from customs officials, the Attorney General’s Office stated in a statement.
The convicts have the proper to record an enchantment towards the ruling, it stated.
They have been arrested via way of means of the National Directorate of Security (NDS), Afghanistan’s pinnacle secret agent business enterprise, remaining December and therefore expelled from parliament via way of means of President Ashraf Ghani.
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The business enterprise stated the 3 have been stuck red-surpassed at some stage in a respectable go to reveal operations of a dry port in the metropolis of Hairatan, withinside the northern Balkh province bordering Uzbekistan.
Afghanistan ranked one hundred and sixty-fifth on Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2020, above much less than a dozen nations consisting of North Korea, Libya, Sudan, Venezuela, Yemen, Syria, and Somalia.
The global watchdog, however, stated Afghanistan “is an enormous improver” at the index as “the united states instituted enormous criminal and institutional reforms and currently introduced plans to set up a brand new anti-corruption commission.”
Anti-graft measures have received greater significance in the war-weary united states as economic resource pledges for the following 4 years – really well worth some $12 billion – made on the 2020 Afghanistan Conference in Geneva remaining November got here with many situations related to curtailing corruption.
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