18:33 28.04.2017

Confiscated $1.5 bln of Yanukovych team's funds transferred to Ukraine's budget - Lutsenko

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Confiscated $1.5 bln of Yanukovych team's funds transferred to Ukraine's budget - Lutsenko

State bank JSC Oschadbank has completed the confiscation of $1.5 billion of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and his entourage, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko has said.

"The transfer of $1.5 billion confiscated by the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine from the criminal group has been completed. Good workers of Oschadbank executed the operations through computers," Lutsenko wrote on his Facebook page.

According to him, if cash currency notes of $100 were used in this operation, this amount would weigh 15 tonnes, as an "African elephant with a cub."

"Now it's up to the government and the parliament. It is necessary that this year common Ukrainian citizens feel the result of returning these funds from the mafia," the prosecutor general said.

Yanukovych's lawyer Vitaliy Serdiuk denied that his client had anything to do with the confiscated $1.5 billion. "I have bank statements from the accounts of Viktor Yanukovych issued by Oschadbank and the amount there is quite different. It equals 28 million hryvni and the amount is frozen and is not being confiscated now. This is the money on his personal bank account. It is his personal savings, on which all taxes were paid. Therefore, the latest information, which is being actively spread out, that the funds were seized, confiscated and removed is totally untrue," Serdyuk said.

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