Afghan Biographies

Rahmani, Rahman Al-Haj Mir


Name Rahmani, Rahman Al-Haj Mir
Ethnic backgr. Tajik
Date of birth 1962
Function/Grade Ex Wolesi Jirga Member 2018 MP MNA Parwan Parvan
History and Biodata

Alhaj Mir Rahman Rahmani
Phone: 0707575757

2. Previous Functions:
Head of the chamber of commerce of Parwan province
Wolesi Jirga Member 2010 MP MNA Parwan Parvan
Wolesi Jirga Member 2018 MP MNA Parwan Parvan
Speaker of Wolesi Jirga (20190518, 20190629)
 

3. Biodata:
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Alhaj Mir Rahman Rahmani, son of Alhaj Qalandar Khan and brother of General Baba Jan, was born in 1962 in Bagram district, Parwan province. Rahmani graduated from Bagram High School in 1979. After school, he traveled to Russia to study at the Military University of Russia, from which he graduated in 1982.
 

After graduating from high school, Rahmani joined the military and was a commander in Bagram. In the later years of his military career he served as a General at a military base in Afghanistan.

From 1982 to 1986 he was at the Council of Ministers and the executive member during Dr. Najibullah’s government he worked in the troops. In the regime of Mujahidin, he worked as a commander of Gen. Baba Jan, his brother, who was in the former Soviet regime, served as a senior military commander.

After Kabul province was seized by the Taliban, Mir Rahman Rahmani, along with his brother, General Baba Jan, left Kabul, and joined the Ahmad Shah Masood on the resistance front and During the years of resistance to the beginning of the interim period led by former Afghan President Hamid Karzai, He was in the armed forces of the country and reached to the level of general. In the last years of his service, he served as the 40th Bagram section commander, and he has financially strengthened his position and then left the army and and started his own business.

In 2002, he started his own business in the transportation sector. He was later appointed head of the Parwan provincial Chamber of Commerce, a position he held from 2007-2010.
 

Rahmani has financially supported various cultural, sporting and industrial associations. In 2006, he established the Ajmal Rahmani Charitable Foundation. He establish a weekly newspaper, Agah, in 2006 in Parwan province. Since 2008, Rahmani has served as the head of the People’s Social Council of Bagram district, a civil society organization registered with the Ministry of Justice.
 

Mir Rahman Rahmani is close to Jamiat-i-Islami.
 

Commission (2012): National Economy, NGOs, Rural Development, Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
(Chair)
 

  • Mir Rahman Rahmani has received 10,658 votes (second most) in Wolesi Jirga Election 2018 and grabbed a seat in WJ2018.
     

Omar Nasir Mujaddedi, Kamal Naser Osuli, Mirwais Yasini and Mir Rahman Rahmani have nominated themselves for the post of Wolesi Jirga 2018 Speaker. From the four candidates, Rahmani got 75 votes, Osuli 69 votes, Yasini 59 and Mujaddedi got seven votes. The two last candidates were removed from the list and in the next round, Osuli and Rahmani will compete for the position.(20190516)

The second round of the voting for the election of the Wolesi Jirga speaker was held on Saturday, May 18, 2019 in which Rahmani got 123 votes and his close competitor Kamal Nasir Osuli, an MP from Paktia, got 55 votes. Acting speaker of the house Atta Mohammad Dehqanpoor announced Rahmani as the new speaker. Mir Rahman Rahmani was elected as a chairman for the next five years as Chairman of parliament. (20190519)

A committee of 15 lawmakers was formed on Sunday, May 19, 2019 to solve the tension over the election of Mir Rahman Rahmani as Speaker of the Wolesi Jirga, the Lower House of the Parliament. Khan Agha Rezaee, Ajmal Rahmani, Mirdad Nijrabi, Nahid Farid and Humayun Harirod are the five members of the committee from Rahmani’s side while Khan Mohammad Wardak, Jawed Safi, Sayed Ahmad Khadim, Razia Mangal and Abdul Rasheed Azizi are from Kamal Nasir Osuli. Meanwhile, five MPs, including Abdul Qayum Sajjadi, Irfanullah Irfan, Fraidoon Mohmand, Sediq Ahmad Osmani, and Mohammadullah Batash, are the impartial members of the committee.(20190520)

123 votes were needed for a candidate to win. Rahmani received 136 votes while his rival Khan Mohammad Wardak secured 96.(20190629)
 

December 11, 2023 , the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two former Afghan government officials — Mir Rahman Rahmani (M. Rahmani) and his son, Ajmal Rahmani (A. Rahmani), collectively known as “the Rahmanis” — for their extensive roles in transnational corruption, as well as 44 associated entities. These individuals and entities are designated pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13818, which builds upon and implements the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act and targets perpetrators of serious human rights abuse and corruption around the world. Through their Afghan companies, the Rahmanis perpetrated a complex procurement corruption scheme resulting in the misappropriation of millions of dollars from U.S. Government-funded contracts that supported Afghan security forces. 


Rahman Rahmani, a former Afghan speaker of parliament, and his son, former Afghan parliament member Ajmal Rahami, are accused of using their Afghan companies to perpetrate what the Treasury described as a "complex procurement corruption scheme" that netted them millions.

"In nearly every step of their corruption scheme, the Rahmanis created opportunities to enrich themselves at the expense of others," the federal department said in a statement.

According to U.S. officials, the Rahmanis artificially inflated the price of fuel contracts they won to deliver fuel to Afghan security forces, fraudulently imported and sold tax-free fuel and under delivered fuel owed by their contracts as well as used their positions in the Afghan parliament to perpetuate their corruption.

The Treasury also accuses the pair of having bribed their way into parliament.

Of the 41 companies hit with punitive measures for being owned or having acted on behalf of the Rahmanis, 21 were German, eight were Cypriot, six were Emirati, two were Afghan and Austrian and one was dutch and another was Bulgarian.

Another two German companies and a Dutch company were sanctioned for their involvement in the scheme.



Rahmani is married and has one son and five daughters. Wolesi Jirga Member Ajmal Rahmani is his son.


He speaks Dari.

Last Modified 2023-12-12
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