The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine has sent for examination materials gathered during the verification of possible involvement of the ICU brokerage company and staff of Ukrainian banks in buying up government bonds for the "dirty" money of Ukraine’s disgraced ex-president Viktor Yanukovych, Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko told a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security and Defense.
A scheme of asset withdrawal from Ukraine by Viktor Yanukovych’s entourage, earlier published by Al Jazeera, involves former NBU Governor Valeriya Gontareva, a fugitive Ukrainian oligarch Serhiy Kurchenko, MP Oleksandr Onyshchenko, and Pavel Fuchs, a businessman from Ukraine who made his fortune in Moscow.
Criminal investigation is under way by the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine into the embezzlement by officials and shareholders of PJSC CB Pivdencombank and PJSC Terra Bank of funds totaling more than UAH 4 billion, which brought both financial institutions to insolvency, as reported by the PGO’s press office.
The National Bank of Ukraine has denied accusations of involvement in the withdrawal refinancing funds through Austrian banks specializing in similar services for clients from CIS states, as reported on the NBU website.
The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine along with the Main Military Prosecutor's Office and National Police has exposed the scheme of grand tax evasion and siphoning from Ukraine of billions of hryvnias, Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko wrote on Facebook.