Ministry of Defence Hides Costs of Botched Secret Afghan Resettlement Scheme – Guido Fawkes

Ministry of Defence Hides Costs of Botched Secret Afghan Resettlement Scheme

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The MoD is concealing the costs of transferring Afghans to the UK under the covered-up Afghan Response Route. Murky…

As Guido revealed last month across all Afghan resettlement schemes the taxpayer has forked out £457,833 on average every month to fly Afghans to the UK. The MoD is refusing however to specify the costs for flights used on the ARR since its inception, including RAF and charter flights. The MoD claims “hostile states, terrorist organisations and ransomware hackers may exploit this information to intentionally target eligible approved applicants” and that disclosing the cost would damage “the contractual and commercial interests of the Department” with charter companies. Baloney…

In a sign of the shambolic state of all the schemes the MoD also doesn’t know how many ARAP applicants have been flagged as risky ‘cases of interest’ – entirely devolving the issue to the Home Office. No communication between the two departments, no accountability…