The Biden regime and other international donors provide about $80 million to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan every two weeks, the Free Beacon reported in November 2023.
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), the US government’s main oversight authority on the reconstruction of Afghanistan, has reported that the Biden regime and other international donors have been inadvertently siphoning off the Taliban’s coffers.
Despite the assurances of the Biden administration to the contrary, around $80 million in aid is funneled into Taliban-controlled Afghanistan every two weeks. This aid, intended for humanitarian projects, is siphoned off by the Taliban through various means, including fraudulent nonprofits.
According to SIGAR, the United Nations sends “remittances” to Afghanistan every 10 to 14 days.
According to the SIGAR report:
“Due to disruptions in international banking transfers and liquidity challenges since the Taliban takeover in August 2021, the UN is sending money to Afghanistan for use by UN agencies and approved partners. The country told SIGAR that UN cash shipments – an average of $80 million each – arrived in Kabul every 10-14 days. According to the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), all cash is placed in a designated UN account; no cash is brought to Afghanistan and given to the Taliban carefully monitored, audited, and inspected according to UN financial rules and processes. From December 2021 to July 2023, the UN reported transferring $2.9 billion to support humanitarian operations. According to the World Bank, the UN cash flow was $1.1 billion in August 2023, after a cash shipment of $1.8 billion in 2022.
This money should theoretically be protected from the Taliban. However, the interference of terror groups in UN and NGO activities is increasing in 2023.
They arrested aid workers and demanded “sensitive data” about various projects. In addition, they have created fraudulent NGOs to receive donor aid and have infiltrated and extorted existing Afghan NGOs that deliver educational aid. The US Agency for International Development (USAID) also reported that projects funded by the agency have been affected by Taliban intervention in recent months.
According to reports, Taliban leaders and officers stole an unknown amount of tens of millions of dollars donated to Afghanistan.
Kabul Now reported:
A report from Foreign Policy magazine, published on December 30, 2022, citing sources involved, stated that Taliban leaders and commanders have stolen an unknown amount of tens of millions of dollars sent to the country, using the money to keep “supporters on the side with handouts, cash and food and finance personal operations.
There have been long-standing complaints about the Taliban banning humanitarian aid from reaching some communities and provinces in Afghanistan.
“The Taliban take care and manage the money, decide where it should go, to whom, in which part of the country,” the former official said. “The people have no choice. (The Taliban) have no support, especially in Hazara and Tajik neighborhoods in Ghor and Badghis provinces and other remote areas. The UN people are Afghans. They have no power to protest — they face danger, intimidation, and also his family. And no one checked later.” In other areas, such as the southern provinces where the population is predominantly Sunni Pashtun, like the Taliban, aid goes directly to Taliban families and supporters,” Foreign Policy reports.
According to the UN, 97% of Afghanistan’s population lives in poverty and millions of people depend on aid to survive.
The Judicial Watch reports that extremist groups have exploited the aid system by creating fraudulent non-profit organizations.
By establishing fake Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), the group has managed to divert a large part of the aid money flowing to Afghanistan.
Judicial Watch reported:
The Taliban have created fraudulent non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to steal hundreds of millions of dollars in humanitarian aid that the United States has sent to Afghanistan since the 2021 military withdrawal. NGOs are usually non-profit with a humanitarian mission that is supposed to promote public or social welfare.
About 1.5 million NGOs operate in the US, according to the State Department, and they advocate for a wide range of issues including the environment, health, women’s rights, marginalized populations, youth empowerment and economic development. The US government gives NGOs billions of taxpayer dollars each year through various agencies, including the Departments of Health and Human Services, Homeland Security and State.
In Afghanistan terrorists are not surprised to steal the humanitarian aid that continues to flow to the central Asian Islamic country by, among other things, using fake NGOs. Specifically, the Taliban benefited from American education funding through the establishment of fraudulent NGOs to receive donor aid, according to an audit published recently by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). The Taliban also infiltrated and looted existing Afghan NGOs that provided educational assistance, the investigation found. “For example, NGO officials reported that the Taliban targeted and extorted Afghans who received monetary support from US-funded education programs under the guise of taxes,” the report stated. “In another example, NGO officials told SIGAR that the Taliban pressured NGOs to hire Taliban supporters or buy goods from Taliban-owned companies.”
Prior to the Biden administration’s military withdrawal, the US invested $1.3 billion in education-related programs in Afghanistan and reportedly “contributed to significant improvements” in the Muslim country’s education system. Since the terrorist group returned to power in August 2021, Uncle Sam has continued to fund Afghanistan’s education sector through six programs worth $185.2 million even though the Taliban have issued decrees drastically limiting access to education for girls and women as well as limiting women’s abilities. work and other basic freedoms. However, American taxpayer dollars keep flowing. In fiscal year 2023, which ends in September, the US sent Taliban-controlled Afghanistan more than $566 million in humanitarian aid. Most are for emergency food, but the cuts are classified for humanitarian and public health purposes. More than $15 million went to causes labeled “hacked” in government records.
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Please note: Joe Biden armed the Taliban with $80 billion in weapons and supplies when he surrendered to the Taliban and fled Afghanistan in 2021.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported – Joe Biden is providing the Taliban terrorist organization and its Islamic allies with US weapons, armored vehicles, helicopters, ammunition, and billions of dollars in cash.
Instead of destroying the equipment before leaving the country, Joe Biden handed over nearly $85 billion in US military equipment to the Taliban.
The Taliban then released a video of the weapon that Joe Biden left behind and a room full of stacks of $100 bills that Joe left behind for good measure. The Taliban posted a video of a pallet of weapons and a stack of $100 bills they were holding.
