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September 9, 2010, Thursday
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AFGHAN security forces used batons on unruly customers scrambling to withdraw their savings yesterday from a branch of the graft-hit Kabulbank, the country's biggest private financial institution.
Officers from the National Security Directorate struggled to maintain control of up to 200 people outside one branch in the capital as desperate customers tried to take out money ahead of a three-day Muslim holiday.
The crisis in Afghanistan's top private bank developed after the company's top two directors quit amid unproven media allegations of corruption.
The central bank on Monday ordered the assets of Kabulbank's former chairman Sher Khan Farnood and chief executive officer Khalilullah Fruzi to be frozen, together with those of several other shareholders and major borrowers.
Witnesses saw officers of the National Security Directorate beat several people among queues of angry customers.
"It's Eid, we need money for food, clothes, candy," said Hameed Iqbal, a customer in an air force uniform.
"They said all the bank branches would be open, they lied. I'm extremely angry," he said.
Corruption is one of the most common complaints from ordinary Afghans and Washington fears widespread graft is boosting the Taliban-led insurgency.
Officers from the National Security Directorate struggled to maintain control of up to 200 people outside one branch in the capital as desperate customers tried to take out money ahead of a three-day Muslim holiday.
The crisis in Afghanistan's top private bank developed after the company's top two directors quit amid unproven media allegations of corruption.
The central bank on Monday ordered the assets of Kabulbank's former chairman Sher Khan Farnood and chief executive officer Khalilullah Fruzi to be frozen, together with those of several other shareholders and major borrowers.
Witnesses saw officers of the National Security Directorate beat several people among queues of angry customers.
"It's Eid, we need money for food, clothes, candy," said Hameed Iqbal, a customer in an air force uniform.
"They said all the bank branches would be open, they lied. I'm extremely angry," he said.
Corruption is one of the most common complaints from ordinary Afghans and Washington fears widespread graft is boosting the Taliban-led insurgency.
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