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2 Afghan ministers suspected of embezzlement

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KABUL: Two Afghan cabinet ministers are being investigated under suspicion of embezzlement, a deputy attorney general said on Monday, at a time when President Hamid Karzai faces tough Western pressure to clean up his government. Fazel Ahmad Faqiryar declined to name the two ministers that were targets of the probe.

He said other officials were also being investigated. “If the ministers insist and don`t show up for the interrogation, we have other legal means with which to proceed,” said Faqiryar,” adding that they could be suspended from their posts or arrested. Faqiryar later told Reuters 15 former and current cabinet ministers who served under Karzai since 2001 were suspected of corruption, adding that some of them had fled Afghanistan. “Whenever they are ready for interrogation and we prove the accusations against them, then we will send their documents to the court,” Faqiryar said.

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