Investigators of the main investigation department of Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) have received a permit to apply to authorized agencies of Britain and British Virgin Islands and send a request about two companies of former first deputy prime minister Serhiy Arbuzov, the Nashi Groshi website has reported, referring to a decision of Kyiv's Pechersky district court.

According to the report, investigators launched case No. 42014000000000925 on September 10, 2014 over the unlawful enrichment of the former head of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU, 2010-2013) and first deputy prime minister (2013-2014) Arbuzov.

The investigators want to receive information about founders, beneficiaries, authorized persons, samples of their signatures, stamps, powers of attorney and other documents related to the creation and functioning of Neoform Universal LPP and Reamex Invest S.A. for the whole period of their activities.

The investigators established that accounts of Neoform Universal LPP and Reamex Invest S.A., the beneficiary of which from January 2009 through August 2010 was Arbuzov, were opened in Latvia's bank PrivatBank AS.

"The investigators established that when Arbuzov ran the above-mentioned posted he opened 15 accounts at four banks. A total of UAH 41.23 million, EUR 156,000 and $177,000 arrived to his accounts. This is not in line with income declared by Arbuzov," the report said.

Arbuzov has tight contacts with his mother, brother and wife: UAH 4.79 million, $40,000 and EUR 37,000 arrived to the accounts of his mother, UAH 64.07 million, $230,000 to his brother's accounts and UAH 480 million and $41.01 million to his wife's accounts.