Yakiv Smolii, the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), has quit his job, citing pressure from a “systematic” campaign against him and the central bank by oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky.
“For a long time, systematic political pressure was applied to the central bank,” Smolii said July 1 in an emailed statement, as cited by Bloomberg. “This makes it impossible for me to efficiently fulfil my duty as governor and to co-operate with other government bodies.”
