Kabul bank's losses twice the $300m admitted, says Karzai's brother | World news | The Guardian

Kabul bank's losses twice the $300m admitted, says Karzai's brother | World news | The Guardian: "Kabul bank, once Afghanistan's largest, was known to have been struggling to recover $300m of loans to politically well-connected businessmen who frittered it away on disastrous investments, including Dubai's real estate bubble.

But Mahmoud Karzai, the president's brother and a leading shareholder in the disgraced bank, said there was an additional $375m that investigators were trying to retrieve.

If true, the total amount owed exceeds the central bank's $400m bailout of Kabul bank last year, when revelations about the extraordinary dealings led to a run on the latter and the near collapse of Afghanistan's embryonic banking system."