44-year old Olga Pishchanska is the new head of Ukraine’s Antimonopoly Committee (AMCU), the press service of the state body reported on July 7. This nomination took place less than a week after the Verkhovna Rada accepted the resignation of former head of the AMCU Yuriy Terentyev and former head of the National Bank Yakiv Smolii, on June 3, a move that caused an uproar among investors in Ukraine.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed Olga Pishchanska as acting head of Ukraine’s Anti-Monopoly Committee, or AMCU, the press service of the state body reported on July 7.
The nomination took place less than a week after the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament accepted the voluntary resignation of the former AMCU head, Yuriy Terentyev, on July 3. Terentyev, 43, had led the organization for more than five years. Pishchanska had previously served as his deputy.