Latvia’s central bank chief, freed this week on bail after being detained in a corruption case, said he regrets not reporting the “hint” of a bribe in the past, reiterating that he’s never accepted one or been offered one explicitly.
“I’ve been hinted but these are very thin-ice things and you never know how these things are meant,” Governor Ilmars Rimsevics said Thursday in an interview with Bloomberg TV in the capital, Riga. “Usually you think, well, maybe I misunderstood, let’s see how the things are developing. If I would know that this thing is going to develop like it has been developing, I regret that I didn’t report it.