UK spent over $1.1 billion on relocating Afghans

A massive data leak by the British military forced the government to secretly resettle thousands of ineligible asylum seekers

The British government has spent at least £850 million (around $1.1 billion) to covertly resettle thousands of Afghan nationals who had collaborated with the UK and were publicly exposed by a Ministry of Defense data leak, officials confirmed on Tuesday after years of attempting to conceal the blunder.

In February 2022, an unnamed MOD official mistakenly emailed a spreadsheet containing sensitive information on up to 33,000 Afghans. Many had worked alongside British forces during the NATO-led invasion and had applied…

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