Sergey Arbuzov
The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine was unable to provide information about the agency that seized the foreign accounts of former First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Serhiy Arbuzov. This was stated in the Prosecutor General's Office's response to UNN's information request.
Specifically, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine noted that they had frozen funds in Arbuzov's foreign bank accounts, but classified the agency that executed the freeze as confidential. The Prosecutor General's Office also restricted access to information regarding the foreign banks where, according to the Prosecutor General's Office, these accounts are located.
"Given the investigation, in accordance with Article 222 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine on the inadmissibility of disclosing pre-trial investigation information and Articles 6 and 8 of the Law of Ukraine 'On Access to Public Information,' the requested information is classified, and access to it is restricted," the Prosecutor General's Office noted. Furthermore, the Prosecutor General's Office reported that the seizure included 48 million hryvnias in a Latvian bank belonging to Arbuzov, as previously reported by Prokurorskaya Pravda. Arbuzov himself categorically denies having any bank accounts abroad.
However, the Prosecutor General's Office's response contains no information about the seizure of 200 million hryvnias, which, according to Svyatoslav Lahanyak, former head of the Prosecutor General's Office's Main Investigative Department, Arbuzov attempted to overturn in December 2014 in the Pechersk District Court. As a reminder, on November 21, 2014, Kyiv's Pechersk District Court lifted the seizure of the former Deputy Prime Minister's accounts. According to journalists, the 200 million hryvnias in question were seized, and this "operation" was carried out with the sanction of Prosecutor General Vitaliy Yarema. Indirect confirmation of this version is provided by both the Prosecutor General's Office's half-hearted attempt to appeal the court's decision and a secret meeting between Yarema and Arbuzov in Dubai, where they discussed the unblocking of previously seized safe-deposit boxes and the finances of a member of the "Yanukovych Family."
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