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The United States offered a reward of $ 5 million on Tuesday for information that helps find an Afghan-American citizen who says he was kidnapped in Kabul in 2022.

Mahmood Habibi, who worked for a telecommunications firm, was taken along with his driver and detained by the Taliban government intelligence service, the State Department said.

He was seized together with another 29 employees of the company for which he worked, the Reuters news agency reported, citing a state notice. Everyone except Habibi and another person has been released since then.

“The so -called Taliban government has not yet provided any information about the whereabouts or condition of Mr. Habibi,” the spokeswoman for the Tammy Bruce state department spokeswoman.

After Mahmood Habibi disappeared, the Taliban denied him.

The United States considers it unjustly sustained. But the Taliban repeated News themezone in January They had no habibi in custody.

The Taliban government He launched two other Americans in January, Ryan Corbett and William McKentyfor an Afghan arrested in the United States in an exchange mediated by Qatar.

Dozens of foreign citizens have been arrested since the Taliban returned to power in August 2021 after the withdrawal of the American army of Afghanistan.

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