Financial monitoring service reveals UAH 45 bln worth of money laundering transactions

"The total amount of financial transactions that may be associated with the legalization of funds or commission of another crime defined by the Criminal Code of Ukraine is UAH 45.2 billion," the agency reports on its website.

Also, during the said period, the financial monitoring service revealed transactions worth UAH 15 billion that could be related to money laundering or a criminal offense as a result of corruption, including by former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych and his entourage.

Read alsoPyramid of dollar bills: Lutsenko announces seizure of $200 mln from Yanukovych's "family"Some 46 materials on transactions worth UAH 766.85 were forwarded to law enforcement agencies on financial transactions of persons who may be associated with the financing of terrorism (separatism), while the funds of such persons in the amount of UAH 47.63 million have been blocked.

As UNIAN reported earlier, the Financial Monitoring Service in March 2014 - December 2016 had forwarded to the law enforcement agencies more than 1,900 materials on laundering of proceeds from crime amounting to UAH 449.8 billion.