Afghan tycoons fear banks help kidnap gangs

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Mohammad Shoib / ReutersA businessman travels with his personal security personnel in Afghanistan's Herat province on Dec. 11.By ReutersKABUL -- Afghan construction magnate Haji Asadullah Ghaznawi was dragged from his office with a gun to his head and locked up in a slaughterhouse for almost three weeks.

Ghaznawi was later shocked to discover someone had leaked details of his bank account to the kidnap gang who pulled up in a car in broad daylight in Kabul a year ago and abducted him.

Violent criminals who gain access to confidential information about Afghan millionaires like Ghaznawi have raised alarming questions about the dangers of doing business in one of the world's poorest and most corrupt countries.

Follow @NBCNewsWorld  "Eight days before I was kidnapped a business partner added one million dollars to my bank account," Ghaznawi said from his luxurious office in the Afghan capital.

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[Glory Skales Charity]

Kidnapping is nw an occupation? this is serious

[Shola Sholaz]

Afghanistan is a country i will never love to be in.So many sad stories take place there