Watchdog on Ghani’s escape from Kabul:

Afghanistan’s former leaders almost surely didn’t flee the country with tens of millions of dollars lining their pockets, a new U.S. government report shows, while also noting that a substantial amount of cash vanished from government properties before the Taliban takeover.

As the Taliban swept through Afghanistan and entered Kabul last August, report after report suggested Afghan President ASHRAF GHANI took nearly $170 million out of his nation’s coffers, hoarding the money for himself and his loyalists. Ghani ferociously denied those charges. “I left with just a waistcoat and some clothes,” the leader in exile in the United Arab Emirates said at the time. “The accusations are baseless lies.”