The IMF should suspend payments to Ukraine if the country’s government does not appoint an independent central bank governor, Valeria Gontareva, former governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, tells

The IMF should suspend payments to Ukraine if the country’s government does not appoint an independent central bank governor, Valeria Gontareva, former governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, tells Central Banking news site. Noting that Smoliy, her successor, was pushed out as governor only three weeks after Ukraine received $2.1 billion in IMF aid, Gontareva says from self-exile in London that Zelenskiy’s team “fooled the IMF. They waited until they had the first tranche of IMF aid and then they put more pressure on Smoliy.”