Mikhail Fridman. Archival photoMOSCOW, April 30Ukrainian News agency writes with reference to the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine that assets of the companies of Russian businessman Mikhail Fridman worth more than 469 million hryvnias (over 15.5 million dollars) were arrested in the country ).It is alleged that the seized funds were in the accounts of a bank that is «one of the ten largest financial institutions and included in the systemically important banks of Ukraine.» Assets, factories, shops: Ukraine nationalizes Russian property Fridman and other businessmen used controlled Cypriot companies and the said bank to legalize the assets of these companies totaling 1.1 billion hryvnias (about $33 million), according to Ukrainian investigators. It is alleged that they later withdrew part of the assets from the banking system of Ukraine, and another was seized. It is noted that the Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine is conducting a pre-trial investigation into the legalization of property obtained by criminal means by officials of a private banking institution.
