Farhat Bengdara

Farhat Omar Bengdara is a Libyan politician who was the Chairman of the National Oil Corporation. He is a banker who was the governor of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) until he defected to the anti-Gaddafi side in the course of the Libyan Civil War. He left Libya for Turkey, which had directs flights and no visa requirements, on 21 February, but was formally in office until 6 March, when the government realised he would not return.