Moby Group

News Summary:

Taliban fighters visited TOLO TV's compound in Kabul in the final week of the American occupation on August 19, 2026, requesting to inspect security guards' weapons and gun licenses. This followed criticism faced by Saad Mohseni, Moby Group chairman and TOLO TV founder, on June 7, 2026, from Afghan activists, journalists, and diaspora members over remarks made at the Jaipur Literature Festival in London regarding the situation of women in Afghanistan. Earlier, on May 12, 2026, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reported that dozens of Taliban intelligence officers raided the Moby Group office in Kabul, the parent company of TOLOnews, following the outlet's announcement of the arrest of its journalists Mansour Niazi and Imran Danish. Previously, on June 2, 2025, Mohseni, the Afghan media mogul whose Moby Group is based in Dubai, sold his Greenwich Village townhouse for $4.8 million, having reportedly left New York years prior and rented out the property.