Materials of a joint investigation by Ukraine's State Financial Monitoring Service and the Liechtenstein Financial Intelligence Unit were sent to the Ukrainian General Prosecutor's Office / Photo from firestock.ru
The State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine and the Liechtenstein Financial Intelligence Unit have identified five Panama- and Liechtenstein-registered companies with accounts in banks in Liechtenstein and Latvia used for the accumulation of large assets of dubious origin for a long period of time, according to a posting on the Cabinet's official website.
It has been established that the joint beneficial owners and/or authorized persons of accounts opened in a bank in Liechtenstein are an incumbent judge of the Higher Economic Court of Ukraine and his wife, the State Financial Monitoring Service reported on Wednesday. During the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych, the judge worked as a deputy chairman of the Higher Economic Court Ukraine.
One of the accounts of a company whose beneficiary and authorized person is the judge's wife was frozen on July 28, 2015, under a ruling of a court in Vaduz, the capital of Lichtenstein, thanks to joint measures taken by the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine, the Liechtenstein Financial Intelligence Unit and the Prosecutor's Office of Liechtenstein.
The total amount of the frozen assets is CHF 13.1 million.
One of the said companies has an account in a Latvian bank, used to funnel major money flows through.
The State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine and the Liechtenstein Financial Intelligence Unit are now working to establish the funds' sources of origin.
They are also identifying the companies and their beneficiaries who transferred money to the abovementioned nonresidents' bank accounts.
Materials of a joint financial investigation by the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine and the Liechtenstein Financial Intelligence Unit were sent to the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine on July 29, 2015, for further legal proceedings.