As an IMF team flies into Kyiv today, one former Washington colleague,

As an IMF team flies into Kyiv today, one former Washington colleague, Oleksandr Pysaruk, may well be sitting in jail here, awaiting bail. Pysaruk worked at the IMF for three years, leaving in August to take up a new post last month in Kyiv – chairman of Austrian-owned Raiffeisen Bank Aval, Ukraine’s largest private bank. Psyaruk’s detention Monday stems from his 2014-2015 stint at the National Bank of Ukraine, where he served as First Deputy Governor. The detention of one of Ukraine’s most respected bankers at the time of the arrival of the IMF is not a coincidence, some analysts say.