The balance of funds in the single account of Ukraine's State Treasury Service was estimated at UAH 5.099 billion (US$181.7 million) as of January 1, 2018, which was about 90.9% down from the figure as of December 1, 2017, according to the Treasury's website.
The amount of private transfers of money from abroad to Ukraine in the nine months of 2017 was $5.192 billion, which was 29.6%, or $1.187 billion, up on the same period of 2016, according to the National Bank of Ukraine.
The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Ukraine has begun the procedure of the confiscation of US$200 million in funds stolen by allies of the ousted Ukrainian ex-president, Viktor Yanukovych, according to Ukrainian Prosecutor General's press secretary Larysa Sargan.
The balance of funds on the Ukrainian State Treasury Service's single account as of September 1, 2017, was estimated at UAH 61.151 billion, or US$2.35 billion, which is the maximum level since 2003.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman says the ProZorro public e-procurement system has allowed Ukraine to save UAH 19.1 billion, or US$738.6 million, of budget funds since August 1, 2016, due to reducing prices as a result of competition.
Former leader of “DPR” terrorists Igor Strelkov during Thursday’s televised debates with the Russian opposition’s Aleksey Navalny said he had organized the invasion of the Ukrainian Donbas in 2014 using money from the Russian-occupied Crimea.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says UAH 40 billion, or US$1.5 billion, in recovered assets from fugitive ex-President Viktor Yanukovych and his allies, which has already been transferred to the state budget, will be spent on strengthening defense and infrastructure projects, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says that funds worth $1.1 billion confiscated from Ukraine's ousted ex-president Viktor Yanukovych have been credited to the accounts of the State Treasury, according to the presidential press service's statement following Poroshenko's meeting with Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk and head of the National Bank of Ukraine Valeria Gontareva.