31 March 2008
Kyiv’s new mayor-elect, Leonid Chernovetsky, has announced ambitious plans from the Kyiv city council. Chernovetsky, the leader of Pravex-Bank, has said that his key goals are rooting out corruption and bringing the city economy out of the shadows. The mayor to-be added that as part of this plan he would be requiring all city employees to take lie detector tests. Together with the Yulia Tymoshenko Block, with which the new mayor intends to work closely, Chernovetsky’s party will have the majority of seats in the city council. Concorde Capital: All public officials are known to make sweeping promises when they are elected to office, however, Chernovetsky is considered by most as a bit of a loose cannon, and may do just what he says. At his bank it is common practice for all employees to take random polygraph tests.