National Bank of Ukraine releases PricewaterhouseCoopers report

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In a news brief dated July 10, the IMF announced that the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has released the second of three reports from a special examination by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) of the NBU’s foreign reserves management.

The report covers the period November 30, 1996 to July 31, 1997; the first report covered August 1, 1997 to January 31, 1998; and the third report will cover February 1, 1998 to September 30, 1998. The NBU commissioned the report at the request of the IMF staff following various reports that the NBU carried out a number of transactions that gave the impression that Ukraine’s foreign exchange reserves were higher than was actually the case. The IMF has posted the PwC report on its website at www.imf.org, where it will remain for one month, as did the first report (see News Brief No. 00/26, May 4). At the requirement of PwC, the report is available in a read-only version.

The second PwC report discloses no transactions adversely affecting reserve levels other than the transactions detailed in the first report and is consistent with the IMF staff’s understanding of Ukraine’s use of its foreign exchange reserves described in News Brief Nos. 00/15, March 14, and 00/26, May 4.

The IMF views very seriously any...

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