Afghan President fled with $169M - "bags full of U.S. dollars"

[FelineOverlord]

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[Mosby]

1. Oddly specific amount. nt

[Celerity]

2. They said it would not all fit on his plane, maybe they retrieved

31m (if 200m was the original amount) or 81m (if 250m was the original amount).

Purely guessing.

[Klaralven]

3. Maybe it is after duty paid in Tashkent?

[Celerity]

7. I doubt we'll ever know, as the clouds at this level of international cloak & dagger skulduggery are

thick indeed.

[Klaralven]

8. As a former employee of the World Bank, it may not have seemed like a large sum to him

Although it is quite a lot for a former academic at Johns Hopkins.

[FakeNoose]

4. He cleaned out the banks

This explains why ordinary people couldn't get any of their savings.
The banks had no money left.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Now we know one reason Biden was locked out of transition info.

[samnsara]

6. no wonder joe sounded pissed during his speech

[Dawson Leery]

9. Is this why Biden was locked out of security briefing during the transition?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. SOP

Seems South Vietnam President Thieu tried to smuggle tons of gold when he fled in 1975.

https://thehistorianshut.com/2018/07/14/when-south-vietnamese-president-nguyen-van-thieu-fled-from-his-country-he-tried-to-take-tons-of-gold-with-him/