Asset registration: 2 MPs, 4 senior officials face AGO

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Asset Registration and Review Office of the Presidential Palace has introduced six people, including two former lawmakers and as many current governors to the Attorney General Office over registering ‘wrong information’.

Abdul Wadood Basharyar, head of government officials’ Assets Registration and Review Office in the Office of Administrative Affairs of Presidential Palace, told Pajhwok Afghan News that those introduced to the AGO also included a deputy minister and a former minister.

He said they introduced Parwan governor Fazaldin Ayar, Samangan governor Abdul Latif Ibrahimi,  former Helmand lawmaker Habiba Sadat, former Bamyan lawmaker Safora Ilkhani, former counternarcotics minister Salamat Azimi and deputy Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) head Rohullah Niazai to the AGO.

He said the figures had been referred to the Attorney Office for registering wrong and deceptive information while recording their assets.

Basharyar provided no details about the issue. Around 16,500 of government officials registered their assets this solar year, he added.

He said government officials register their assets every year but if they provide wrong information about their wealth, they would be taken to justice.

“The AGO is responsible to investigate the cases according to the law”, he said without giving further information.

Habiba Sadat told Pajhwok she was the first one to report correctly to the Assets Registration and Review Office.

“The people of Helmand know me, I don’t take bribes, I’m not a land grabber and have no business,” she claimed.

Sadat said she had an apartment and land. Her husband sold farmland in Nad Ali district, bought the apartment and paid the price in seven years.

She said her husband bought a land plot during the Najibullah government and she had been unable to construct a house on it so far. All her assent had been shown correctly, she insisted.

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