Kyiv intends to take control of Russian investments in Ukraine
Today, Ukraine cannot control investments from Russia if they come through offshore schemes, and it is necessary to create a legislative instrument that will allow this to be done.
Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine Svetlana Panaiotidi stated this on air on the 112 Ukraine TV channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“As for the so-called investment screening, we developed a corresponding bill. I hope that it will be approved at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers in the near future. Next we will defend it in the Verkhovna Rada. We have a regime that allows sanctions.
If a company is sanctioned, it is impossible to receive from it. If there is some kind of scheme that allows you to register through Cyprus, then today it is impossible to verify it. And even if it can be verified, there is no legal basis to prohibit something.
Accordingly, we need a tool, in addition to sanctions, in addition to the list of companies that are included there, which will say that we have a commission that checks investments and where they are invested. It is known, it exists in America and Europe.
Do you want to invest? Show us what kind of money this is, where you are going to invest, and whether this is acceptable to us. Because the question is: either we need to expand sanctions to everyone, inclusive, or adopt things that will allow us to control this,” Panaiotidi concluded.
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