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KABUL — A close adviser to President Hamid Karzai, arrested last month for soliciting a bribe, was also under investigation for having provided luxury vehicles and cash to presidential allies and because of his telephone contacts with Taliban insurgents, according to Afghan officials familiar with the case.
The Afghan officials also said that it had been Karzai himself who intervened to win the quick release of the aide, Mohammad Zia Salehi, even after the arrest had been personally approved by the country’s attorney general. The new account suggests that the corruption case against Salehi was wider than previously known and that Karzai acted directly to secure his aide’s release.
