Ukrainian court arrested Latvian accounts of oligarch Kurchenko's offshore companies
The Pechersky District Court of Kyiv arrested the accounts of 14 offshore companies associated with businessman Sergei Kurchenko in two Latvian banks ABLV Bank and Regionala investiciju banka in the liquefied gas case.
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About it stated in court decisions published in the Unified State Register.
Thus, according to the investigation, Kurchenko, through the companies “Ukrkharkivrgazpostachannya-2009”, “Luganskpropangaz”, “Kharkov-SPBT”, “GazUkraine-2009”, LLC “GazUkraine-2020”, “Zaporozhgaz-2000”, “Cherkasy-Gazsnab” and other structures bought liquefied gas at specialized auctions at preferential prices and sold them on the market at market value. As a result, Kurchenko, by prior conspiracy, by employees of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine and other persons caused damage to the state totaling more than UAH 1 billion.
The Pechersk court arrested the accounts of offshore companies on the basis of the Council of Europe Convention on Laundering and Confiscation of Proceeds from Crime and on the Financing of Terrorism of 2005, as well as in accordance with the agreement with Latvia on legal assistance and legal relations.
The amounts of funds held in these accounts are not indicated in court decisions.
In addition, the Pechersk court also granted permission to the Prosecutor General's Office to seize from Latvian banks all documents related to the movement of funds in accounts after a request for assistance in the investigation to Latvian law enforcement agencies.
Earlier it was reported that the Swiss federal prosecutor's office is investigating criminal proceedings against Ukrainian businessman Sergei Kurchenko for money laundering.
Sanctions against Kurchenko were also introduced in the DPR and LPR, where criminal cases were brought against the oligarch and his structures for fraud in the fuel and lubricants trade market.
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