In the first half of 2019, the Asset Recovery and Management Agency (ARMA) reviewed 935 requests on finding and tracing of assets within criminal proceedings from law-enforcement authorities of Ukraine and foreign states.
Most of the requests were received from the National Police of Ukraine - 289, the bodies of the prosecutor's office - 221, the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine – 217, the State Bureau of Investigations - 85, the Security Service of Ukraine - 71, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine – 46, foreign law-enforcement authorities – 6.
Within the framework of cross-border exchange of information, 43 requests on finding and tracing of assets within criminal proceedings were sent by ARMA in particular to: Germany, Finland, the Great Britain, Turkey, Belgium, Bulgaria, Israel, Cyprus, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Poland, France, Austria, the UAE, Latvia, Canada, the Netherlands, Spain, the USA, Estonia, Moldova.
In the course of processing the appeals in 2019, ARMA found and traced assets, both in Ukraine and abroad, for the purpose of their seizure and confiscation, in particular:
- corporate rights - shares in the authorized capital of companies worth
5 545. 58 million UAH;
- securities worth 50.15 million UAH;
- 3595 real estate objects;
- 2465 land plots;
- 1093 vehicles;
- 46 034 units of other assets (goods);
- 202 units of agricultural machinery;
- 66 facts of ownership of the rights to inventions, trademarks;
- cash: 310.22 million UAH, 7.34 million USD, 7.0 million EUR.
Let us remind that in accordance with the Special Law, ARMA is authorised to find and trace assets, derived from corruption and other crimes upon request of an investigator, detective, prosecutor, court (the investigating judge) of Ukraine, as well as upon request of the relevant foreign state authorities.
The Procedure for interaction in consideration of appeals from the pre-trial investigation authorities, the prosecutor’s office and in implementation of requests from foreign states on finding and tracing of assets was established by the mutual order between ARMA, the National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine № 115/197-о/ 297/586/869/857 from 20.10.2017.
