The State Department’s Rewards for Justice, or RFJ, program is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the location, recovery, and safe return of Mahmood Shah Habibi, an American businessman abducted in Afghanistan on August 10, 2022. Mr. Habibi was abducted, along with his driver, from his vehicle in Kabul, Afghanistan and detained by the Taliban’s General Directorate of Intelligence.
At the time of his disappearance, he was working as a consultant for a Kabul-based telecommunications firm. He has not been heard from since his initial arrest, and the Taliban has yet to provide any information regarding his whereabouts or condition.
Anyone with information on Mr. Habibi is urged to contact RFJ at +1-202-702-7843 via Signal, Telegram, or WhatsApp. More information about this reward offer is located on the Rewards for Justice website at https://rewardsforjustice.net.
The mission of the Rewards for Justice program is to offer rewards for information that protects American lives and furthers U.S. national security objectives.
This includes information that leads to the arrest or conviction of anyone who plans, commits, aids, or attempts international terrorist acts against U.S. persons or property in the United States or abroad; prevents such acts from occurring in the first place; identifies or locates a key terrorist leader or disrupts the financial mechanisms of foreign terrorist organizations and kidnapping networks.
RFJ also offers rewards for information that lead to the identification or location of any foreign person who knowingly engaged or is engaging in U.S. election interference, including activity that violates federal criminal, voting rights, or campaign finance law.
RFJ offers rewards for information that identifies or locates any individual who, while acting at the direction or under the control of a foreign government, engages in cyber-based crimes.
For information that disrupts the financial mechanisms of persons or entities engaged in certain activities supporting the North Korean regime; or identifies or locates any individual who, while acting at the direction or under the control of the North Korean government engages in cybercrime, RFJ will also provide awards.
Since its inception in 1984, RFJ has paid in excess of $250 million to more than 125 people across the globe who provided actionable information that helped resolve threats to U.S. national security.
The U.S. will punish those who commit crimes against its citizens and reward those who bring these criminals to justice.
