A private Dubai company handled security at Afghanistan airports from 2018-2020. They weren’t fully paid for their services, and their contract was cancelled and given to another company at a higher price. There’s a suggestion of graft involved in both cases, it seems like some of their payments were skimmed and that the President of Afghanistan intervened to direct funds to a favored firm. Then the Taliban retook Afghanistan, but that didn’t cancel out Afghan debits. The Dubai company won over $15 million in arbitration and they’re trying to collect. IATA holds fees paid by airlines to overfly Afghanistan territory in a Swiss bank account, and the funds were frozen because of Taliban links to terrorism. So the security company wants to seize those funds. They sued in Washington, D.C. where IATA has lobbying offices – a court was persuaded they’re owed the funds, that funds held by IATA were eligible for garnishment, but that it lacked jurisdiction over the IATA overfly fees held in Switzerland.…