KABUL (Pajhwok): A number of Wolesi Jirga or lower house members on Monday claimed that customs positions were sold and bought and the acting finance minister was involved in the practice.
They said the finance minister was not ready to expose officials involved in embezzling the national revenue and thus becoming part of the corruption.
Mohammad Khalid Painda, acting finance minister on May 19, had told the Wolesi Jirga that up to eight million US dollars were embezzled daily in the country’s custom ports.
He had said that some government officials and lawmakers had employed their own people in . . .
