Afghanistan Central Bank has been Robbed by its own Employees.

Afghanistan Central Bank has been Robbed by its own Employees. 

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan according to Reuters - Staff at a branch of Afghanistan's central bank in southern Kandahar province may have got away with as much as 81 million Afghanis ($1.4 million) when they robbed their own bank and ran, an official told to Reuters on Saturday.

The Kandahar raid on Central Bank of Afghanistan "Da Afghanistan Bank"  is believed to have been carried out by a senior official at the bank, an employee of nine years, with the help of his son and brother-in-law who were also on staff, according to central bank director for Afghanistan's southwestern region, Fazel Ahmad Azimi.

The said robbery at the branch in Spin Boldak near the border with Pakistan was discovered on Thursday and investigators believed the group has escaped to Pakistan. Azimi further told that the group had also removed CCTV recordings before fleeing to Pakistan, but investigators were hopeful that footage might be recovered from the memory chip of the security cameras.

Weak regulation undermines confidence in Afghanistan's fragile banking system, which has yet to fully recover from a 2010 scandal over a bank that collapsed triggering a financial crisis.