Leaving Kabul most difficult decision of my life, says Ashraf Ghani, denies carrying ‘millions of dollars’

In a public statement shared on Twitter, Ghani called the allegations that he carried bags full of money “baseless” and offered to take an audit of his finances and that of his family.

New Delhi: Ousted Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday (September 8) said that leaving Kabul was the most difficult decision of his life and that he did it to prevent bloodshed. In a public statement shared on Twitter, Ghani called the allegations that he carried bags full of money “baseless” and offered to take an audit of his finances and that of his family. “I owe the Afghan people an explanation for leaving Kabul abruptly on August 15th after Taliban unexpectedly entered the city. I left at the urging of the palace security who advised me that to remain risked setting off the same horrific street-to-street fighting the city had suffered during the Civil War of the 1990s,” Ghani said in the statement.