Court arrested his assets
In Ukraine seized assets of Cypriot companies totaling nearly half a billion hryvnias, owned by a Russian oligarch and other Russian businessmen, according to the press service of the Bureau of Economic Security.
The investigation established that the Russian oligarch, together with other businessmen, using controlled Cypriot companies and a bank owned by them, on the eve of and during Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine, organized fictitious agreements and financial transactions aimed at legalizing assets of Cypriot companies totaling 1 , 1 billion hryvnias and their further withdrawal from the banking system in Ukraine.
Thus, the Russian oligarch and businessmen tried to avoid possible negative consequences in the form of sanctions and the application of measures of forced revocation of property rights under Ukrainian law.
The court seized part of the assets of these companies totaling more than 469 million hryvnias.
Law enforcement officers do not name a single Russian oligarch after the banking institution. However, according to Economic Truth, these are Mykhailo Friedman and Alfa-Bank Ukraine.
Earlier, the founders of Alpha Group, Mykhailo Friedman, Petro Aven and Herman Khan, came under British and EU sanctions.
The National Bank noted that international sanctions against Russia's Alfa-Bank do not apply to Ukraine's JSC Alfa-Bank, which is an independent legal entity. The regulator stressed that Alfa-Bank (Ukraine) is a systemically important bank, the efficiency of which is critical to financial stability today. ordered Friedman and Aven to edit their stake in Alfa-Bank Ukraine agreed with the National Bank of individuals and legal entities resident in Ukraine.
Alfa-Bank Ukraine recently agreed with the NBU on Simeon Dyankov's candidacy the person to whom the right to vote in respect of the shares of the bank's sanctioned shareholders will be transferred.
