Startseite
Podcasts
Planet Money Podcast
#272: The Finance Minister Who Robbed A Bank

#272: The Finance Minister Who Robbed A Bank

Planet Money vor 15 Jahren

0:00

On today's Planet Money, we talk to Ali Tarhouni.

He fled Libya 40 years ago after speaking out against Moammar Gadhafi. "I was given a choice to leave the country or go to jail," he says. His name wound up on a Gadhafi hit list in the 1980s.

His life settled down over the years, though, and he landed a job teaching microeconomics at the University of Washington. But when the civil war started in Libya, Tarhouni returned home and quickly became the finance minister for the anti-Gadhafi forces. His job, among other things, is to figure out how to get money for the rebels.