George Soros suspected in Ukrainian currency manipulation, met with Prime Minister shortly before sharp decline began, 12/30/08 report

• 12/30/2008, "The exchange rate crisis of the Ukrainian currency has led many media sources to blame Hungarian-born speculative investor George Soros for the turmoil. The

• slump began shortly after he met Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

Soros's name is popping up more and more frequently in local media sources, which suspect the financial guru may have

• engineered an assault on the Ukrainian hryvna similar to the Black Wednesday attack that had broken the Bank of England back in 1992.

• The suspicions are fuelled be the fact that the sharp decline in the value of the currency followed

• Soros's meeting with premier Yulia Tymoshenko.

Although comments at the moment barely amount to more than conspiracy theories, Igor Pukshin, a Deputy Head at the Presidential Secretariat, said Tymoshenko may have had

• personal financial interests in undermining the national currency, Hungarian daily Népszabadság reported.

After the 1992 attack on the sterling, which allowed George Soros to earn an immense fortune, it is not surprising to see the speculator pictured as a prime suspect in any currency crisis." "Soros blamed for demise of Ukranian hryvna" 12/30/08