The Asset Recovery and Management Agency (ARMA), acting upon a request from the Main Investigation Department of the National Police of Ukraine, has traced assets belonging to a group of individuals suspected of committing a series of serious criminal offenses.
According to the investigation, the suspects, acting as an organized group by prior agreement, arranged the illegal transfer of foreigners and stateless persons across Ukraine’s state border. To facilitate this, they employed a scheme involving fictitious employment at 48 non-existent enterprises registered in Ukraine.
Specialists of ARMA’s Department for Finding and Tracing of Financial and Other Assets carried out a comprehensive review of information systems, registries, and banking data. As a result, they identified and traced illicitly acquired assets belonging to the suspects, including:
- luxury private residential property;
- three high-end vehicles;
- shares in the authorized capital of enterprises.
“Illegal border crossings were accompanied by a number of other crimes – from the use of fictitious companies to money laundering. We have already transferred the collected information to the pre-trial investigation authorities for the imposition of asset seizures,” noted ARMA Deputy Head Pavlo Velykorechanin.
