Ruling on special confiscation of $1.5 bln belonging to Yanukovych, allies remains classified

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Kyiv's district administrative court has refused to revoke a decision by the Military Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine to handle a ruling issued by Kramatorsk's town court in Donetsk region on special confiscation of $1.5 billion belonging to former President Viktor Yanukovych and his allies as classified information.

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This is stated in a recent court decision listed in the state register of court decisions.

Read alsoPyramid of dollar bills: Lutsenko announces seizure of $200 mln from Yanukovych's "family"According to the materials, the court received a claim from NGO Anti-Corruption Action Centre against to the military prosecutor of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) forces, the State Enterprise "Information Judicial Systems," the State Judicial Administration, and Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko, requesting to declare illegal and revoke a March 21 decision by the prosecutor of the ATO Military Prosecutor's Office on security measures against persons involved in criminal proceedings related to the special confiscation.

Read alsoNSDC: $1.5 bln recovered from accounts of Yanukovych and Co.Also, the NGO requested that the State Judicial Administration and the state enterprise "Information Judicial Systems" should publish the Kramatorsk town court's decision of March 28, 2017, and revoke Lutsenko's decision to recognize the descriptive part of the Kramatorsk court's March 28 verdict as state secret. 

Having considered the claim, the Kyiv court refused to cancel the decision of the Military Prosecutor's Office, which treats special confiscation as classified information.

As UNIAN reported earlier, special confiscation of US$1.5 billion deposited on bank accounts of Yanukovych and his allies for the Ukrainian budget was enforced on April 28.

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