Ukraine's central bank fails to voice final date of PrivatBank audit

The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) explains protracted terms of the comprehensive analysis (forensic audit) of PrivatBank, nationalized in Dec 2016, with heavy workload, without specifying the deadline, according to NBU Deputy Governor Kateryna Rozhkova.

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"There's a very large amount of work, besides we started a little later than we had planned," she said, adding that they had originally scheduled to begin the audit in January, but in fact, the work started in May.

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"We are waiting and accelerating our partners. But I do not know the exact date yet," she said.

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