Kabul Bank Audit Details Extent Of Fraud

Afghan Bank Scandal Details Emerge: A 'Well-Concealed Ponzi Scheme'

KABUL, Afghanistan — Kabul Bank became Afghanistan’s largest financial institution by offering the promise of modern banking to people who had never had a saving or checking account. What it really dealt in was modern theft: “From its very beginning,” according to a confidential forensic audit of Kabul Bank, “the bank was a well-concealed Ponzi scheme.”

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