The Asset Management and Tracing Agency (ARMA), together with the State Bureau of Investigation, has discovered significant assets linked to those involved in a criminal case involving abuses in the state regulatory body. About this reported the head of ARMA Olena Duma.
Officials of this body organized a scheme to pay salaries to fictitious employees, which led to the illegal appropriation of state funds. As a result of a thorough analysis of registers, banking systems and other sources, ARMA employees discovered assets belonging to those involved in this scheme. Among them: three objects of residential real estate, four cars, 18 land plots and five weapons.
ARMA Deputy Chairman Pavlo Velikorechanin emphasized the importance of obtaining a court order that would allow these assets to be transferred to state management. This will be a key step to ensure the seizure and control of assets seized as part of a criminal case.
ARMA also reported on the successful search of the property of officials of one of the state joint-stock companies, who are suspected of large-scale abuses in the energy sector. In particular, in September, assets totaling about 400 million hryvnias, including 300 million hryvnias and 2 million US dollars, were discovered in the accounts of companies suspected of illegal fraud during state procurement for the energy sector.
