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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSon of Afghanistan's Former Defense Minister Buys $20.9 Million Beverly Hills Mansion
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/son-afghanistan-former-defense-minister-172358560.htmlHe already owns a $5.2 million Miami Beach condo at the prestigious St. Regis Bal Harbour resort, but Daoud Wardak apparently also wants a West Coast outpost. To that end, hes heading for Beverly Hills records reveal the semi-mysterious businessman, who is a son of former Afghan Minister of Defense Abdul Rahim Wardak, has bought a $20.9 million mansion on a prime Trousdale Estates street.
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Not much is publicly known about the various business interests or wealth origins of Wardak, an ethnic Pashtun refugee who was born in Afghanistan in 1977. But public corporation records show hes the president of a Miami-based firm called AD Capital Group. Various reports have also noted that his older brother Hamed Wardak, a Georgetown University grad and onetime valedictorian, is a successful businessman who runs military transportation company NCL Holdings. Based in Virginia but operating primarily in Afghanistan, NCL has secured lucrative U.S. government contracts in exchange for protecting American supply routes in Afghanistan; those contracts were reportedly worth north of a whopping $360 million.
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Not much is publicly known about the various business interests or wealth origins of Wardak, an ethnic Pashtun refugee who was born in Afghanistan in 1977. But public corporation records show hes the president of a Miami-based firm called AD Capital Group. Various reports have also noted that his older brother Hamed Wardak, a Georgetown University grad and onetime valedictorian, is a successful businessman who runs military transportation company NCL Holdings. Based in Virginia but operating primarily in Afghanistan, NCL has secured lucrative U.S. government contracts in exchange for protecting American supply routes in Afghanistan; those contracts were reportedly worth north of a whopping $360 million.
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Son of Afghanistan's Former Defense Minister Buys $20.9 Million Beverly Hills Mansion (Original Post)
IcyPeas
Oct 2021
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JI7
(89,249 posts)1. "military transportation company" "lucrative U.S. government contracts"
dalton99a
(81,486 posts)2. Wealth origins: U.S. Treasury
Kid Berwyn
(14,904 posts)6. US Taxpayer
Always ready to backstop Democracy. Er. Capitalism.
Irish_Dem
(47,058 posts)3. We know where some of the US taxpayer money went, don't we?
To all the cronies and corrupt Afghanistan leadership.
Crepuscular
(1,057 posts)4. Protecting supply routes....
Being paid to protect U.S. supply routes, sounds similar to the old days of paying protection money to the Mob, to insure that your business didn't burn down.
Mysterian
(4,587 posts)5. This is the scamming that President Biden ended!
That's why the war profiteers and their screeching propaganda networks squealed like pigs.
DFW
(54,378 posts)7. How much of the profits of those companies ended up back in the campaign coffers of Republicans?
We'll never know, but I have a strong feeling (that's "concern" to our Republican lurkers) that the amount is somewhere far to the north of zero.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,316 posts)8. This is where an "unexplained wealth order" comes in handy
Make him prove he got the money legally.