The campaign, announced on August 17 in a "Quentin Quarantino" Instagram post, raised millions to support the Afghan evacuation effort through a GoFundMe fundraiser. Overall, that would mean Operation Flyaway has helped rescue at least 135 evacuees. The campaign also told the Post that it provided similar support to 27 people for a Sayara International flight that left the country a few days later. The campaign told the Post that it supplied transportation and other assistance that helped 57 people get on a flight that successfully departed Afghanistan on September 17. Since then, "Operation Flyaway" has assisted in at least two rescue operations, according to the Post. A representative for Sayara International confirmed this arrangement to Insider. While the two groups had reached a deal to provide seats for 200 of the campaign's evacuees, some could not get through to the airport, an anonymized source told The Post. "Operation Flyaway" did help evacuate 51 people in Afghanistan after giving $545,000 to the global consulting firm Sayara International, according to the report.
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But on Sunday, Afghanistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that the airport was "fully operational" again and promised full communication with airlines, Reuters reported. Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan's capital Kabul in mid-August, the city's airport has been a chaotic scene as many attempted to evacuate but were unable to secure flights. The operation has poured $3.3 million into flights that were ultimately canceled, and for which the group has not yet received refunds, according to The Washington Post, which examined "financial records, emails, text messages, recordings of calls and interviews." The outlet found that zero Afghans had been evacuated on flights chartered by "Operation Flyaway," a purported charity campaign to rescue people in Afghanistan promoted through the Instagram meme page "Quentin Quarantino," which has over 820,000 followers and is run by 26-year-old Tommy Marcus. An Instagram influencer who raised over $7.2 million to evacuate people in Afghanistan during the Taliban's takeover of the country has spent nearly half the money on canceled flights and gave over $2 million to a company that appears to be owned by a man who was under investigation for fraud, according to an investigation published Thursday by The Washington Post.
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