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| Afghan Anti-Corruption Chief Was Las Vegas Drug Dealer |
| 2007-03-10 |
| Afghanistan's new anti-corruption chief has a shady past. Izzatullah Wasifi served nearly four years in a US prison for trying to sell heroin to an undercover agent in Las Vegas for $65,000. Have a heart: anyone can change. It is not the ideal CV for a man appointed to root out corruption in the country that is overwhelmingly the world's biggest supplier of opium, from which heroin in refined. Mr Wasifi's past came out after an investigation by the Associated Press, which pieced the story together from court records. They revealed that in 1987, Mr Wasifi was arrested at Caesar's Palace Hotel. Identifying himself only as Mr E, he tried to exchange a bag containing a pound and a half of heroin for $65,000 (£34,000) in cash, unaware the "customer" was a policeman. Mr Wasifi was released on parole after three years and eight months. The government of President Hamid Karzai has refused to say whether it knew about the drugs conviction when Mr Wasifi was appointed to his post two months ago. A childhood friend of Mr Karzai, today he heads an anti-corruption office of 84 people. Mr Wasifi has admitted he served time in a Nevada prison but claims the circumstances were different. He says he was arrested after his then-wife bought cocaine for her own use and brought it to their Las Vegas hotel room... Its like the captured car thief: I only borrowed it. |
| Posted by:Sneaze |
| #3 What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2007-03-10 22:37 |
| #2 Well, its not like he's a Congressman with a refrigerator full of cold cash. Instead of being an anti-corruption chief, he'd be the chairperson of a Congressional committee based upon seniority. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-03-10 12:02 |
| #1 It is not the ideal CV for a man appointed to root out corruption in the country that is overwhelmingly the world's biggest supplier of opium, from which heroin in refined. Not sure I agree, he knows the business from the inside. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-03-10 10:47 |