Sherkhan Farnood

Sherkhan Farnood, born on 15 August 1963 and died on 24 August 2018, was an Afghan banker and chairman of Kabul Bank, Afghanistan's largest private financial institution, until late 2010, holding 28.16 percent of its shares, and he also owned Pamir Airways in partnership with Khalilullah Fruzi and others. An ethnic Uzbek originally from Kunduz Province, he studied chemical engineering while running a business in Moscow, where in the 1980s and 1990s he ran a hawala, an informal money transfer organization. He became a prominent poker player, taking part in the 2008 World Series of Poker Europe and winning his first bracelet. Before his detention he spent most of his time in Dubai, where he owned villas on Palm Jumeirah, and he died in prison on 24 August 2018 at the age of 55.