Slovakia’s central bank governor has rebuffed a call by the country’s leadership for him to resign after a judge fined him in a bribery case.
Peter Kažimír, who has run Slovakia’s central bank and sat on the European Central Bank’s main interest rate-setting body since 2019, said in a statement emailed to the Financial Times that he was innocent and would fight the judge’s decision.
The statement came after Eduard Heger, the prime minister, told a news conference in front of the central bank headquarters on Thursday that it was “unacceptable for a person to be convicted of bribery by a court to hold the post of governor of this respected institution.”
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