Fridge worth about 10 billion dollars including foreign currency and gold
The terrorist organization Taliban has taken control of Afghanistan. After the capture, the Taliban is now also preparing to form a government in the country. But after forming the government, one may have to face a lot of difficulties to run the country. Because America has frozen the account of about $10 billion of the Afghan government.
According to the Washington Post, the Biden administration on Monday froze various assets of the Afghan government kept in various US banks. After this move of America, the Taliban will no longer be able to get the Afghan treasury deposited in American banks. According to an Afghan official, the country’s central bank The Afghanistan Bank (DAB) has a lot of assets by taking foreign currency, gold etc. However, its exact figures are not known. Another report also revealed that most of the country’s wealth is kept outside the country, which the Taliban cannot reach.
The country’s President Ashraf Ghani and key officials had already left the country. After which on Sunday, Ajmal Ahmadi, a governor of the bank, had also tweeted and informed that he had been relieved of all the duties of the bank and had left his own country. According to the IMF report, the country’s central bank had assets of $ 9.4 billion as of April. Which was the third part of the country’s earnings.