A former head of an Afghan government-owned bank, was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment over corruption, an official at the country's Attorney General's office told dpa Wednesday. Two of Hayatullah Dayani's colleagues at the Pashtany Bank, as well as 13 others involved in the corruption scandal, were also jailed, for sentences ranging from five to eight years.
Dayani was the head of the state-run commercial bank from 2006 to 2008. He was accused of embezzlement of over 700 million Afghani (14 million dollars) from one account and 12 million dollars from another, as well as counterfeiting bank documents, according to Ahmad Shah, an lawyer at the counter-narcotics department of the Afghan Attorney General's office. "Hayatullah Dayani, the former governor of Pashtany Bank, was sentenced to 20 years in prison and he was sent to jail today," Shah said.
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