NBU: Taruta spreads false information about U.S. Congress hearings on Ukraine

"As far as the NBU is informed, the U.S. Congress held no official hearing or meeting on the subjects indicated in Mr Taruta's message either today or any other day. In reality, an informal meeting hosting less than 20 persons was held in a room taken on lease; the organizer and moderator was a representative of the lobbying company LibertyInternationalGroup, and the speakers were Mr Serhiy Taruta and Mr Oleksandr Zavadetskyi, an NBU's former employee," the NBU said in a statement on Wednesday, September 27.

No officials from the U.S. Administration or Congress attended the events, it added.

The NBU says it deems the information spread to undermine the country's global stature, success of the reforms, derail the Ukrainian banking system, and foul the NBU's reputation in the eyes of international financial institutions.

Read alsoG7, EU envoys support Ukraine's central bankThe NBU called on media, experts and non-governmental organizations to address the source and clarify the information about the actual events in the course of Taruta's visit to the United Sates, in particular, his alleged meetings and speeches at the U.S. Congress and abstain from joining the political campaign of a single MP.

"We also appeal to law enforcement agencies and the international community to provide the relevant legal interpretation of unprecedented lies spread by the MP and his attempts to use government bodies in other states to pursue his own interests," the NBU said.