The State Financial
Monitoring Service of Ukraine during the period of the investigation has
blocked in the accounts of individuals and legal entities associated with
Ukraine’s ex-president Viktor Yanukovych the funds totaling $1.52 billion.
The
Ukrainian Financial Monitoring Service in the period between March 2014 and
August 2016, during the investigation of the facts of money laundering by
ex-President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and certain officials from his close
circle have forwarded to law enforcement agencies 461 case files, according to
the agency’s website. According to the files, financial transactions that may
be related to the legalization of proceeds from criminal activity amounted to
$199.4 billion.
It is also reported that the SFMS during the period of the
investigation has blocked in the accounts of individuals and legal entities
associated with Ukraine’s ex-president Viktor Yanukovych the funds totaling
$1.52 billion.
In
addition, during the said period, the agency has received reports from foreign
financial intelligence services on freezing the assets of senior Ukrainian
officials for a total amount of $107.2 million, EUR 15.9 million, and CHF 135
million in countries such as Austria, the United Kingdom, Latvia, Cyprus,
Italy, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and the Netherlands. As UNIAN reported
earlier, the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine has identified 42
non-resident companies close to ex-President Viktor Yanukovych and in June 2014
blocked in the accounts of 19 of such companies $1.5 billion. Prime Minister of
Ukraine at the time Arseniy Yatseniuk has repeatedly called on law enforcement
agencies to initiate the procedure the confiscation of the funds in favor of
the state budget as soon as possible, but these funds have not been returned
until now.
President
of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko during his annual address to the Verkhovna Rada
September 6 urged the deputies to consider as a priority the draft law on
special confiscation of assets of ex-President Yanukovych’s entourage and the
transfer of recovered funds to the budget for future funding of the needs of
the state, especially defense and security.
No comments:
Post a Comment