For the past five years of EU sanctions against the Ukrainian Ex-President Viktor Yanukovych and his Clan in power. The chances of shrinkage, to bring the stolen million back in the Ukraine.
The EU has extended the sanctions against Viktor Yanukovych and his inner circle for another year. Exactly five years ago, on 5. In March 2014, had imposed the Council of the European Union’s Bank Account against the Ex-President of Ukraine, his sons, and 15 other people from his closest environment.
The EU makes the former ruler and his Clan for violations of human rights in Ukraine and illegal enrichment responsible. Even if Yanukovych and his team have dropped off after the bloody crackdown of the Maidan-uprising after Russia – a major part of their secretly accumulated assets, it is believed in the West. Aim: this asset tracking and the Ukraine to return. Alongside the EU, Switzerland and Liechtenstein imposed sanctions.
Sanctions list is getting shorter and shorter
However, only a fraction of the alleged Yanukovych-million could be tracked. Most of the money was frozen in accounts in Switzerland, approximately 145 million Swiss francs, as the Swiss Federal office of justice announced on request of the German wave. This money can be confiscated, and the Ukraine returned if its illegal origin is proved before the Ukrainian courts. So far, it came but in not a single case of alleged illegal enrichment charges. In many cases, the DW-searches in the Ukrainian court register, show, it took two to three years, to the Ukrainian investigating authorities asked European colleagues to information on money flows and accounts.
Oleksandr Yanukovych, the son of Ex-President
Because the investigations in the Ukraine take to long, contracted in the EU sanctions list in the past five years by a third. Several Sufferers complained successfully against the Bank Account before the European court of justice. With a debt to trailing investigation of the Ukrainian judiciary. Court documents that evaluated the DW, show that Ukrainian judges were still appointed under Yanukovych, refused several requests from the Prosecutor’s office to have access to Bank records in foreign countries, or on Account, in part, with the most absurd justifications. So an investigator was denied insight into the Bank records in Switzerland, because his application allegedly illegible copies of documents were attached.
However, the chances for Ukraine, ever Yanukovych-money from abroad back are also bad: It is less and less of the money left. The holders of blocked accounts can in fact pay out the frozen funds their lawyers to assist in legal actions against the sanctions. And the Ex-President and his son Olexandr treat yourself to a whole Team of star British lawyers, such as DW-searches in the files of the European court of justice. Hours Fee: 1500 Pounds.
Money of the Yanukovych clan: also in Germany
Part of EU countries have a hard time to even get on the track of the Yanukovych-money, including Germany. Since 2014, the DW has reported several times about the shops, the Ukrainians from the sanctions list were assigned to the oligarch Sergiy Kurt Gurchenko and Oleksij Azarov, son of Janokowitschs Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and at that time a member of Parliament. Both were bought in 2012, the LPG company “Sparschweingas” in Germany. Your name as the owner, hidden, you, the commercial registers, behind a construct made up of letter box companies in the Netherlands, Austria and in tax havens. German investigators needed more than two years to find out who are netting the beneficial owners behind the Companies.
A tank column of Kurt Gurchenko and Azarov purchased liquefied gas company “Sparschweingas”
At this time, Oleksij Azarov already fine out that The EU Council had removed his name from the sanctions list, as the Ukrainian investigators were able long provide no evidence of a criminal origin of the funds. The money laundering investigations in Germany were set for this reason. Movement came only in 2017.
Millions of post-trading in Kiev?
On the German track of the Yanukovych clan Ukrainian investigators came via Switzerland. According to one of the DW this decision, decreed by a court in Kiev on September 15. August 2017, the blocking of ten accounts in Switzerland, on the Asarows letter-box ‘ companies just under 18 million US dollars had flowed. This money, the suspect to investigators, he got as a bribe from another Confidant of President Yanukovych Andriy Klyuyev. Klyuyev, 2010, the Deputy Prime Minister was in the Cabinet of Asarows father Mykola. On the day before the appointment, the files purchased, a Cypriot shell company of Azarov-Junior a Ukrainian company of Klyuyev for about 5000 dollars. Two months later, sold Azarov, the company, a front company of the newly minted Vice-heads of government – for a whopping 17.8 million dollars.
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As the court was adopted in order to block these funds were in the Swiss Bank accounts of just 600,000 US dollars in tangible. For the Rest of the money, found out to investigators, bought Azarov Junior real estate in the EU and, together with Sergius, Kurt Gurchenko – the filling station network in Germany. Kurt schenkos money came materials investigators estimated that from illegal transactions. For a opinion, the Ukrainians were not accessible.
Tricks against EU sanctions
Today, the German company of Kurt Gurchenko and Azarov broke. However, the gas station is thriving business – it’s running just about other companies. The business has been partially taken over by Kurt schenkos friend Kostjantin Piwowarow. The business is running, as shown in the company’s books is, on the Garda Handels – and Beteiligungs GmbH, a company Piwowarows in Austria. This company he got five years ago, velvet numerous belonging to the real estate in Austria and Italy by Azarov – paid. The description that emerges from one of the DW present the Ukrainian court act, took place on 21. February 2014 – a day after the bloody suppression of the protests on the Maidan, and a few days before the EU imposed sanctions against Azarov.