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KABUL — Afghanistan’s top banker, who is alleged to have played a role in the failure of its largest private lender, has fled the country, a spokesman for President Hamid Karzai said Monday.
Spokesman Waheed Omar said Afghan central bank chairman Abdul Qadir Fitrat had not notified the Afghan government of his resignation. Omar also said Fitrat was named in a report sent Monday to the Afghan attorney general’s office as someone possibly responsible for the failure of Kabul Bank.
Fitrat said from northern Virginia that he left the country because his life had been threatened and that the Karzai government was refusing to prosecute those allegedly involved in fraudulent loans.
