A large sum of cash was stolen from the Russian Falcon 10 plane that crashed on January 20 in Afghanistan; unknown persons stole more than a million dollars.
The Taliban are looking for the kidnappers; the local Taliban military unit, which was among the first to arrive at the scene of the plane crash, is being checked for involvement in the theft. According to sources publications Hasht-e Subh, unknown persons stole $1.2 million from a Russian plane. After the discovery of the loss, the Taliban governor in Badakhshan, Mohammad Ayub Khalid, organized a special commission to investigate the crime.
The commission will be headed by the head of Taliban intelligence in the province. First of all, the Taliban who were the first to arrive at the scene will be checked. According to the publication, they are related to the head of the group’s army headquarters, Fasihuddin Fitra.
How told our publication, on the evening of January 20, a Falcon 10 aircraft was operating a charter ambulance flight from Thailand’s Utapao airport in Pattaya to Moscow, through India and Uzbekistan. In Afghan airspace, the aircraft stopped communicating and disappeared from radar screens.
It later became known that the plane crashed. Russian businessman Anatoly Evsyukov and his wife Anna Evsyukova died in the disaster. The pilot Dmitry Belyakov, co-pilot Arkady Grachev, and doctors Igor Syvorotkin and Pavel Popov survived.
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