ARMA has established an information exchange with 45 banking institutions. Since the beginning of the year, ARMA has sent 103 requests to banking institutions within the framework of exercising the powers to find and trace assets of individuals indicated in the appeals of law enforcement authorities.
On the basis of ARMA's written request, banks disclose information about legal entities and individuals that contains banking secrecy of availability and status of accounts, transactions on accounts of a specific legal entity or individual, an individual - entrepreneur.
The Agency receives information of balances in accounts in banks in UAH, USD and Euro. In accordance with the agreement signed between ARMA and the National Bank of Ukraine, the Agency has the ability to send requests to banks via the National Bank's e-mail system.
Let us remind, that ARMA exercises its powers of finding and tracing of assets on the request of an investigator, detective, prosecutor or court (investigative judge) and relevant foreign authorities.