KIEV: Ukraine’s IMF-backed central bank chief Valeria Gontareva submitted her resignation on Monday after coming under intense pressure from tycoons and lawmakers who wanted to throw her in jail.

The decision, which had been anticipated, leaves one of crisis-hit Ukraine’s most transparent and respected institutions rudderless and President Petro Poroshenko with a tough decision to make about the central bank’s fate.

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