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Chairman of the Board of Raiffeisen Bank Aval Volodymyr Lavrenchuk has reportedly given consent to take up post of the Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) as a successor of Valeria Gontareva, Ukraine's TV Channel 24 reported with reference to an informed source in the NBU.
Now Lavrenchuk's nomination should be supported by the parliament, TV Channel 24 says.
"Lavrenchuk agreed to head the National Bank of Ukraine, now it's up to the Verkhovna Rada," the source said.
Read alsoSergiy Tigipko may become Gontareva’s successor as NBU chief – mediaThe source also stressed that Lavrenchuk was ready to agree to a much lower salary than he was getting now (UAH 500,000 per month).
As UNIAN reported, on April 10, Valeria Gontareva announced her resignation from the post of NBU governor from May 10.
Gontareva in early March confirmed rumors of her possible resignation, promising to officially warn the public a month prior to the actual date she intended to quit office.
The Verkhovna Rada on June 19, 2014, supported the proposal of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on the dismissal of Stepan Kubiv from the post of the NBU Governor and appoint to this position Valeria Gontareva.
According to the Constitution, the head of the NBU is appointed by the Verkhovna Rada for a period of seven years, on the proposal of the President of Ukraine.