The court arrested the assets of Russian entrepreneur companies Mikhail Friedman, the Ukrainian News Agency told the Office of the General Prosecutor of Ukraine on Friday.
It is specified that at the request of the prosecutor’s office, it was arrested on assets of Cyprus companies totaling more than 469 million hryvnias (about $ 15.5 million). The funds were in the accounts of the bank, which is included in the ten largest financial institutions and included in systematic banks of Ukraine. “
According to investigators, Friedman and other businessmen close to it, using the controlled Cypriot companies and the mentioned bank, legalized the assets of these companies. Then they displayed part of the assets, and the other was seized, they say in the department.
The prosecutor’s office added that a pre -trial investigation in the case of the legalization of property received by criminal means committed by officials of a private banking institution is carried out by detectives of the Ukrainian economic security bureau. As the publication “Country” clarifies, Friedman’s assets were on accounts in the Ukrainian Alfa Bank.