Pursuant to a request from the Main Investigation Department of the Security Service of Ukraine, ARMA has found assets related to legal entities and individuals involved in the illegal activities of a pro-Russian Ukrainian politician.
The pre-trial investigation established that the MP of the IX convocation from a banned political party, being the ultimate beneficiary of two LLCs, since 2014 has been committing acts of state treason, financing the violent change and overthrow of the constitutional order in Ukraine, capture of state power and change of the boundaries of the territory and state border of Ukraine.
Pavlo VELYKORECHANIN, the Deputy Head of the ARMA, informed that through the use of information and reference systems, registers and databases, the Agency`s employees found the assets of a joint-stock company located in the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. A thorough analysis of the data obtained from the National Securities and Stock Market Commission showed that this company carried out transactions worth about UAH 1 billion between 2013 and 2018.
“The Agency promptly passed this information to law enforcement agencies for a more detailed analysis and verification of the transfer of securities through non-resident affiliated companies, including to the address of the suspect's brother in Russia,” he added.
ARMA has found the following assets belonging to the suspects:
- residential real estate - 1 object;
- non-residential real estate - 47 objects;
- land plots (quantity) - 7;
- vehicles (quantity) - 3,
- shares in the share capital totaling UAH 587 884 970;
- cash (UAH) - 2 218.
The obtained information was submitted to the Main Investigation Department of the Security Service of Ukraine for appropriate action, including seizure and subsequent confiscation of assets.