 Abdallah headed the IMF's office in Afghanistan since 2008.Following the departure of Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai in 2014, President Ashraf Ghani re-opened efforts to bring former Kabul Bank officials involved in the Kabul Bank Crisis to justice, extend and enforce prison sentences for those previously convicted, and seek to recover hundreds of millions of U.S. and Afghan taxpayers' dollars in funds stolen or lost by embezzlement, corruption, and fraud by the bank's insiders.Ghani vowed to seek to continue the investigation of the Kabul Bank crisis and fight corruption in Afghanistan.