14:27 08.09.2015

Frozen assets of Yanukovych's partners expands by CHF 13.1 mln in summer

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Frozen assets of Yanukovych's partners expands by CHF 13.1 mln in summer

The frozen assets of high-ranking officials-partners of Viktor Yanukovych outside Ukraine totaled $107.2 million, EUR 15.9 million and CHF 135 million as of late August 2015, which is CHF 13.1 million more than in late May, the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine reported on Tuesday, referring to financial intelligence of other countries.

The service said that assets have been frozen in Austria, Britain, Latvia, Italy, Lichtenstein, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Cyprus.

The service said that during the investigation launched in March 2014, a total of 550 accounts of 95 individuals and 86 accounts of 33 companies (including 21 nonresidents) affiliated with the above-mentioned persons have been revealed, and $1.52 billion was blocked on them, although over the past three months only four accounts of one resident were found, while the blocked sum did not change.

According to the report, the volume of blocked assets of so-called officials of DPR and LPR did not change – UAH 28.54 million.

The service in June-August sent 13 generalized materials regarding financial transactions that could be affiliated with financing terrorists or toppling of the constitutional system were sent to law-enforcement agencies, and since early 2015 the number of these document packages has reached 32

The service said that sums of financial transactions which could be linked to legalization of assets grew by UAH 153.4 million, to UAH 354.5 million in summer, however those transactions linked to other crimes did not change, remaining UAH 1.4 billion.

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