Afghanistan has taken new steps to combat rampant capital flight after the central bank revealed the amount of dollars flown out of Kabul airport doubled to $4.6bn last year.
Officials believe many of the brick-sized stacks of $100 bills carried by Dubai-bound passengers belong to drug lords or criminal cartels.
Western allies, which have spent billions shoring up the country, fear such outflows will fuel the kind of grand-scale corruption that has alienated people from the government of Hamid Karzai, the president, and boosted Taliban support.
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