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TOP UKRAINIAN BANKER ASSASSINATED.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 4 Issue: 78

Ukraine’s Interbank Currency Exchange Chairman, Vadim Hetman, was assassinated last night at the entrance to his home in downtown Kyiv. The authorities have no immediate explanation for the murder. (Itar-Tass, April 23) A wealthy financier, Hetman was also a powerful political figure and headed the Group of Independent Deputies in the Ukrainian parliament. (Details in tomorrow’s Monitor)

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