MTN paid Taliban ‘protection money’, say victims of terror
The company is among several multinationals facing a US lawsuit on behalf of killed or wounded US military in Afghanistan
30 December 2019 - 13:01
A civil lawsuit brought in the US says MTN paid protection money to the Taliban and actively helped its fighters from being detected by US counter-insurgency forces
The company, along with five other Western businesses, have been accused in a US court of having violated the Anti-Terrorism Act by paying protection money to the Taliban, a designated terrorist organisation known to have been working with al-Qaeda...
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