Sherkhan Farnood ((1963-08-15)15 August 1963 – (2018-08-24)24 August 2018) was an Afghan banker, Chairman of Kabul Bank until late 2010, which is Afghanistan's largest private financial institution with over 1 million customers. Farnood held 28.16% of the shares in the Kabul Bank.[1] He also owned Pamir Airways, in partnership with Khalilullah Fruzi/Frozi, Mohammed Fahim and possibly others.[2] According to media reports, by November 2010 Da Afghanistan Bank insisted both Farnood and Kabul Bank chief executive Frozi had been removed from bank management;.[3] As of early 2011, both were effectively under house arrest and could not leave the country.[4]
An ethnic Uzbek,[5] Farnood was originally from Kunduz Province of northern Afghanistan.[6] He studied chemical engineering while simultaneously running a business in Moscow, Russia. During the 1980s and 1990s, he ran a hawala, or an informal money transfer organization in Moscow.[2]
