KABUL – The Afghanistan Ministry of Interior on Monday said it hadintroduced 158 police officials including four generals to the AttorneyGeneral Office for investigation into crimes of embezzlement, improper useof authority and perversion.

Zia Kohistan, MoI investigation section head, told reporters in Kabul thatthey had sent 125 dossiers of 158 individuals to the AGO afterinvestigating 540 cases of money and weapons theft.

He said the accused included four generals, 90 officers, 52 sergents andsix senior civil officials and the remaining 130 individuals had eitherbeen removed, suspended or warned.

Kohistani said hundreds of millions of afghanis had been quoted embezzledin the dossiers. He said the cases included the embezzlement of more thanone million afghanis by eight ghost guards at the Hamid KarzaiInternational Airport.

Meanwhile, MoI spokesman Najib Danish told the same press conference thatintelligence gathering and security zones had been prioritized in the Kabulsecurity plan.

He said Kabul was not under any security threat, rejecting reports in thisregard on the social media. He said the Kabul city security plan, which hadbeen sent to the president, had arrived back at the Ministry of Interior.