Afghan health official caught red-handed taking USD 80,000 bribe

Maintenance and control operatives of the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) have arrested a trustee of the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on charge of taking 80,000 bribe from a private company.

The official who was in charge of the ministry’ central store had asked for the bribe in return for the legal process of the contractor’s documents and was arrested while taking the bribe amount on Tuesday, June 23, according to the AGO spokesman, Jamshid Rasooli.