The Ukrainian interior Ministry will be cooperating with Latvia to return the laundered money
The Department of MIA of Ukraine in peacekeeping for the return of assets obtained through criminal means, is planning to establish cooperation with several States, where the Ukrainian ex-officials most often kept illegally derived funds from the country, the narrative is, for example, Latvia and Cyprus. About it has informed on Wednesday on a press-conferences in the Ministry of internal Affairs the chief of this division Elena Tishchenko.
yesterday the head of the MIA of Ukraine Arsen Avakov said that he created in the Ministry of the new Office, which aims to provide a return of assets obtained by criminal means, as well as among them from abroad. The office was headed by Elena Tischenko, which in 2013, was arrested in Russia on suspicion of fraud and authorization of funds stolen by the ex-head of Kazakhstan's BTA Bank Mukhtar Ablyazov. By assumption of the investigation, Tishchenko - the ex-wife of a business partner Ablyazov Ukrainian businessman Sergey Tishchenko, speakers confidant Ablyazov, head of business unit, active in the legalization kidnapped in Russia. Tishchenko was under arrest for about 4 months and yesterday the New year got under economic Amnesty.
As stated Tishchenko, the employees of the Department will apply the mechanisms and possibilities of European partners for the return to Ukraine of assets received by the Ukrainian ex-officials by criminal means. Most often in these cases featured banks of Latvia and Cyprus.
Tishchenko said that in the framework of criminal schemes only one person was transferred about 13 billion hryvnia (about $ 600 mln at current official rate). Because of this, she reported that for the first time in the Ministry of internal Affairs intend to make the total group of commissioners of police organizations of Ukraine and Latvia, which will give the opportunity to waive formalities between Ukraine and the European Union As the Latvian police in investigations will use the mechanisms and opportunities of the EU.
"Our main goal is to find funds that have not yet been found, to provide them with "freezing" or detention in the accounts and in the future to provide confiscate them ", - quotes the words Tishchenko press service of the interior Ministry.
Also, in her expressions, the new Office will have access to the databases of the FBI." Held a working meeting with the FBI representative in Ukraine and agreed that the Office will have access to the database, " said she.
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