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Vadym Petrovych Hetman (; 12 July 1935 – 22 April 1998) was a Ukraine statesman, politician, and banker. He is credited with the creation of the National Bank of Ukraine, Ukraine's central bank. He was assassinated in April 1998 in his home in Kyiv. According to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, the crime was paid for by former Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko. He was posthumously conferred the title of Hero of Ukraine on 11 July 2005.
In 1956, he finished the Kyiv Financial-Economic Institute, after which he worked in various financial institutions in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. In 1975, Vadym Hetman was named the first vice-president to the Head of the Government Committee of Pricing of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1987, he became the head of the Agricultural-Industrial Bank of the Ukrainian SSR (since 1990 Ukraine Bank).
He ran for a third term in the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election, but failed to get re-elected, receiving only 21.85% of the vote, 3.87% below the required percentage to win. His opponent was First Deputy Minister of Information Mykhailo Onofryichuk.
He is also known to have complained to the then-President Leonid Kuchma about voting irregularities within the Verkhovna Rada itself.
The alleged assassin, 29-year-old Serhiy Kulev, a member of the "Kushner gang" from the Donets Basin, was only arrested in 2002. He was later sentenced to life imprisonment without bond in April 2003. The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine has claimed that the assassination was ordered and paid for by Pavlo Lazarenko, a former Prime Minister of Ukraine. Lazarenko has denied responsibility for the killing.
Despite the Luhansk City Court's verdict, the case remains far from being certain. In early August 2005, the media reported that the convict filed an appeal to the Supreme Court of Ukraine on grounds that he had been forced to make a false confession. His lawyer subsequently made a public statement that the case was entirely fabricated.
On 12 July 2005, a memorial plate was established in his honour on House № 13, where Hetman lived and was assassinated.
In 2005, The Kyiv National Economic University was renamed in honour of Vadym Hetman, which he attended in the 1950s.
On 19 April 2006, the Industrial Street in Kyiv was renamed in his honour.
A Yacht racing cup, "Vadym Hetman Cup" bears his name.
Awards and legacy
Vadym Hetman was posthumously conferred the title of Hero of Ukraine by President Viktor Yushchenko on 11 July 2005.
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Categories: 1935 Births, 1998 Deaths, People From Poltava Oblast, Ukrainian Bankers, Governors Of The National Bank Of Ukraine, Assassinated Ukrainian Politicians, Deaths By Firearm In Ukraine, People Murdered In Ukraine, First Convocation Members Of The Verkhovna Rada, Second Convocation Members Of The Verkhovna Rada, Recipients Of The Title Of Hero Of Ukraine, Kyiv National Economic University Alumni, Burials At Baikove Cemetery, European Politicians Assassinated In The 1990s, Politicians Assassinated In 1998
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