Exclusive: EU to investigate claims disused fridges and adapted gas canisters were used to sneak whisky out of Afghan compoundEU investigators are examining claims that the organisation’s compound in Kabul is at the centre of an alleged alcohol-smuggling ring in Afghanistan. The allegations centre on the EU’s compound in the Shahr-e-Naw neighbourhood of north-west Kabul. The EU did not respond to questions asking whether EU taxpayers had lost out because of the alleged bootlegging operation. “The EEAS and the European commission take any allegations of wrongdoing extremely seriously,” she said. “The EEAS and the European commission recall that the presumption of innocence applies.

Source: The Guardian November 17, 2017 17:26 UTC