Taliban leader has withdrawn nearly $690 million cash for personal use, says former Afghan spy chief

Former chief of Afghanistan’s intelligence agency, Rahmatullah Nabil, has claimed that the Taliban leader, Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, has withdrawn a total amount of nearly 60 billion afghanis – equals to 689,746, 200 USD – from the group’s Ministry of Finance over the past one year.

The cash withdrawals by direct order of Akhundzada and his inner circle, Nabil claimed in a tweet thread on Saturday, have recently forced the Taliban’s minister of finance, Hedayatullah Badri, to resign from his post.