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From March 2014 to December 2016, the State Financial Monitoring Service (SFMS) of Ukraine forwarded to law enforcers case files regarding more than 1,900 investigations into money laundering.
According to the press service of the State Financial Monitoring Service, the total amount of the funds in question amounted to UAH 449.8 billion.
The agency also said that they were actively working to detect and block assets and property, misappropriated by former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and his entourage. The SFMS recalled that the funds in the equivalent of $1.54 billion had already been blocked in the accounts of individuals and entities who had ties with Yanukovych and other officials. "In addition, the assets of former officials in the amount of $107.190 million, EUR 15.87 million and CHF 135.01 million were blocked in Austria, Great Britain, Latvia, Cyprus, Italy, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and the Netherlands," the report says.
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"The SFMS has been identifying the newly appointed “leaders” of the "DPR" and "LPR", updating the list of "the so-called" officials and establishes the accounts of these persons in the banking institutions of Ukraine. During this period, UAH 28.5 million was blocked on the accounts of such officials."
As UNIAN reported earlier, in September 2016, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine within the framework of counteracting legalization of proceeds from crime created a Special Advisory Board headed by the leadership of the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine, whose task would be to coordinate the activities of various authorities in the fight against illegal financial flows, arms proliferation, and terrorism.
Read alsoUkraine reports 5 KIA, 9 WIA in Donbas in past day amid escalationIn addition to the main task, the Council analyzes legislation and sources of international law in the field of preventing and combating money laundering, and participates in the drafting legal acts for the implementation of international standards in the fight against money laundering, including the standards of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), prepares action plans to combat illegal finance, submits the results of its work, recommendations and proposals to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.