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The funds in the amount of $2 million were frozen at the request of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office.
The competent authorities of the Swiss Confederation at the request of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) have arrested the property of Ukraine's fugitive oligarch Serhiy Kurchenko.
"The department of international legal cooperation of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine is carrying out a pre-trial investigation into criminal proceedings concerning the creation of a criminal organization of Viktor Yanukovych and its structural unit under the leadership of Serhiy Kurchenko, as well as the commission of grave, especially grave and other crimes in the fuel and energy and banking sectors of the economy, taxation, and other areas," the PGO press service has reported.
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"During the investigation it was established a former official of PJSC Brokbusinessbank had received significant amounts for participation in a criminal organization and the crimes it committed. According to the competent authorities of the Swiss Confederation, an account was determined to which, according to the investigation, illegally obtained funds were transferred, as well as account of an enterprise controlled by the criminal organization in the territory of this state. The funds in the amount of $2 million were frozen on the abovementioned accounts at the request of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office," reads the report.
As UNIAN reported earlier, in May 2018, Ukraine imposed personal sanctions against the ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych's ally, young energy tycoon Serhiy Kurchenko, as well as persons who hold offices as "energy ministers" in the self-proclaimed "DPR" and "LPR", and Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller.
In May 2014, Ukraine's Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said the companies that were part of Serhiy Kurchenko's EEFEC (Eastern European Fuel-Energy Company) had imported to Ukraine over 5 million tonnes of oil products worth UAH 36 billion under fictitious documents over the previous two years. However, these oil products had to be supplied to third countries instead of being sold in Ukraine, which allowed companies owned by Kurchenko to evade taxation.
Kurchenko's bank accounts were arrested during the investigation, as well as his movable and immovable property worth over UAH 1.5 billion (US$53.3 million).
In April 2014, the oligarch was put on the international wanted list.