Ihor Sorkin

Ihor Vyacheslavovych Sorkin (Ukrainian: Ігор В'ячеславович Соркін, Ihor Vyacheslavovych Sorkin) is a Ukrainian banker who was a former chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine between 2013 and 2014.

[2] In 1988–1996 he served in the Soviet Army and the National Guard of Ukraine (commander landing assault platoon, reconnaissance battalion and regimental intelligence chief of the National Guard).

[2] Ihor Sorkin has three higher education degrees: Since 1996 he has been working in the system of the National Bank of Ukraine (economist of 1st category, leading economist, chief economist at the department, head of the sector, deputy head of the department, since 2001 - head of Banking Supervision department in Office of the National Bank of Ukraine in the Donetsk Oblast) In July 2010 he was appointed deputy governor of the National Bank of Ukraine Since January 17, 2011 he was the 3d ranking civil servant.

[5] On 24 February 2014, just after the "Maidan revolution",[6] the Verkhovna Rada dismissed Sorkin as governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.

[7] On 17 March 2014 the Kiev Pechersky District Court approved the arrest Sorkin in absentia on suspicion of embezzlement.