Washington (Kavian Press) – Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani, former head of the Afghan Idependent Election Commission and prominent Afghan politician was sentenced Monday by a federal judge to three years of probation and six months of home confinement, according to an announcement from John F. Sopko the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.
Late last year Nuristani pleaded guilty to the theft of public money and receiving over $100,000 in government benefits from 2015-2018 while he was in Afghanistan and held official government position there.
Nuristani admitted to concealing and repeatedly lying to the Social Security Administration about his overseas travel and residency.
In September 2018, President Ashraf Ghani appointed Nuristani to the Meshrano Jirga, the upper body of parliament in Afghanistan. Nuristani received SSI at his claimed residence in El Cajon, California, while serving as head of Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission and as an Afghan senator.
