REUTERS
The Swiss prosecutor's office has refused to disclose at journalists' requests any details about Yanukovych's assets in gold, earlier reported by Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yevhen Yenin to have been arrested.
The Swiss law enforcers replied they had been aware of the case but forbidden to disclose information about defendants, Deutsche Welle reported.
Read alsoYanukovych, Lavrynovych suspected of seizing power via constitutional coup - PGO"Criminal proceedings are generally confidential in Switzerland. In general, we are bound by a secrecy of the investigation and confidentiality," the prosecutor's office said, according to DW's Ukrainian edition.
As UNIAN reported earlier, Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yevhen Yenin said the law enforcers had arrested more than half a tonne of gold, which was stolen and exported from Ukraine by the associates of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.