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Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov announced the seizure of the said funds back in 2015.
About UAH 2 billion (US$76.1 million) has been withdrawn from the Vseukrayinsky Bank Rozvytku (all-Ukrainian Development Bank), also known as VBR Bank, owned by ex-president Viktor Yanukovych's son, Oleksandr Yanukovych, after a Kyiv court unfroze bank accounts.
The media has reported recently that Kyiv's Pechersky District Court lifted a freeze, which was on the accounts of companies associated by Ukrainian investigators with Oleksandr Yanukovych, the economic news outlet Ekonomichna Pravda wrote.
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Ekonomichna Pravda learnt that about UAH 2 billion of the UAH 2.6 billion ($99 million) seized on VBR Bank's accounts had already been withdrawn, while the rest of the assets exists only on paper.
Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov announced the seizure of the said funds back in 2015.
"When the courts unfroze the companies' accounts, the funds were transferred to other banks," a source familiar with the situation told the publication.
"Now, there is UAH 559 million on the bank accounts related to Yanukovych. The funds are in the 9th phase of creditors' accepted claims. However the money exists only virtually as the bank's assets are not enough to satisfy ninth-priority creditors' claims," the publication says.
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According to the law enforcers, VBR top managers unlawfully lent money to the Donetsk Railways, Lviv Railways, Odesa Railways, South-Western Railways, South Road and Prydniprovska Railways in 2013-2014.
The investigators estimated the total amount of such unlawful loans at over UAH 2.5 billion.
In October 2015, it became known that the Interior Ministry's Main Investigations Department seized over UAH 2.6 billion UAH on those accounts.
Later in 2016, some VBR Bank depositors managed to have their accounts unfrozen.
In addition, in early 2017, some UAH 313 million was transferred from Oleksandr Yanukovych's bank to accounts of President Petro Poroshenko's bank and was subsequently seized.
It became known on April 16, 2018, that the Kyiv court in February canceled the seizure of the VBR accounts of the companies associated with Oleksandr Yanukovych.
The investigators said then that probable perpetrators had transferred almost UAH 550 million and over $27 million on the bank accounts of the said companies.