Abdel Kadir Fitrat

Abdel Kadir Fitrat is an Afghan bank manager. He was head of the Central Bank of Afghanistan until June 2011 .

On June 27, 2011, the US State Department announced that Abdel Kadir Fitrat had fled to the United States . He had previously worried about his safety in an interview and had resigned as central bank governor. He said he feared for his life over the investigation into the Kabul Bank case . A few weeks earlier, in the Afghan parliament, the Wolesi Jirga , he presented the details of a financial scandal that affected the Kabul Bank.

Shortly after the escape, Hamid Karzai described Fitrat as a “ traitor ” and an arrest warrant was issued to the United States Embassy in Kabul . According to the attorney general's office, Fitrat was at the head of a wanted list of the agency that had been dragged off for a year.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Afghanistan's central bank chief resigns. In: ORF . June 28, 2011, Retrieved June 28, 2011 .
^ ^A ^b Luis Imbert: The robber bank of Kabul. In: the daily newspaper . November 13, 2011, Retrieved November 15, 2011 (copied from Le Monde diplomatique ).

personal data
SURNAME	Fitrat, Abdel Kadir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Afghan bank manager
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century

[ORFsetzt-1] Afghanistan's central bank chief resigns. In: ORF . June 28, 2011, Retrieved June 28, 2011 .

[TAZRäuber-2] A ^b Luis Imbert: The robber bank of Kabul. In: the daily newspaper . November 13, 2011, Retrieved November 15, 2011 (copied from Le Monde diplomatique ).