30 January 2010

ARGENTINA: Embattled Central Banker Redrado Resigns.

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Central Bank chief Martin Perez Redrado has resigned, saying "I feel that my term at the head of the Central Bank has concluded and I have decided definitively to leave the office of president of the Central Bank, satisfied with the duties I have performed." After a drawn-out clash with President Cristina Kirchner over the appropriation of $6.5 billion in bank funds, Redrado decided to resign while the congress was still deliberating his dismissal.
Officials shrugged off his announcement, insisting that a sacked employee has no post from which to resign. "For us, there is no resignation."