The court seized the assets of the Russian oligarch Fridman/Liga.NET
The value of the assets of the oligarch's companies is about 470 million hryvnia in accounts with Alfa-Bank.
According to the investigation, one of the Russian oligarchs, together with partners, using controlled Cypriot companies and a bank owned by them, after the start of Russia's war against Ukraine, tried to legalize and withdraw 1.1 billion hryvnias of these companies from Ukraine. To do this, they organized fictitious deals and financial transactions.
According to the Ukrainian media, they talk about the Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman and Alfa-Bank Ukraine, which belongs to him through offshore companies. The beneficiaries of the bank are Russian businessmen:
- Andrey Kosogov (40.96%),
- Petr Aven (12.4%),
- Mikhail Fridman (32.86%).
The Italian banking group UniCredit (9.9%) and the Mark Foundation for Cancer Research (3.87%) also have parts.
Ukraine part of these funds. Consequently, at the request of the Office of the Prosecutor General, the assets of these Cypriot companies in the amount of more than 469 million hryvnias were seized, which remained on the accounts of Alfa-Bank.
The commission of these criminal acts started by the accomplices in advance in order to avoid possible negative consequences in the form of sanctions and/or the application of measures for the forced seizure of property rights, law enforcement officers report.
Interesting! Previously, the founder of Alfa Group, Mikhail Fridman, who is under the sanctions of the EU and the UK, said that sanctions against Russian billionaires were introduced at the wrong address, since businessmen do not have any influence on the country's leadership.
