$1.5 billion of Yanukovych cronies transferred to national budget

$1.5 billion of Yanukovych cronies transferred to national budget

State-owned Oschadbank (Kyiv) has started executing the special confiscation of $1.5 billion of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and his team under a court ruling, the press service of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine has reported.

According to the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Olexander Turchinov, the main role in the return of illicit money belongs to the prosecution bodies whose efforts made it possible to return this money to the national budget.