The European Union's official bulletin Eur-Lex has published a regulation on freezing assets belonging to 18 Ukrainian citizens suspected of misappropriation of government funds and violating human rights.
The Council of the EU’s regulation No. 208/2014 dated March 5, 2014
mentions a total of 18 Ukrainian officials, i.e. former President Viktor
Yanukovych, his sons businessman Oleksandr Yanukovych and Verkhovna
Rada MP Viktor Yanukovych, former Interior Minister Vitaliy
Zakharchenko, former Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka and his son,
Party of Regions Verkhovna Rada MP Artem Pshonka, former Ukrainian
Security Service chiefs Oleksandr Yakymenko and Ihor Kalinin, former
deputy presidential chief of staff and presidential adviser Andriy
Portnov, former Justice Minister Olena Lukash, former presidential chief
of staff Andriy Kliuyev and his brother, businessman parliamentarian
Serhiy Kliuyev, former Deputy Interior Minister Viktor Ratushniak,
former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and his son, Party of Regions MP
Oleksiy Azarov, businessman Serhiy Kurchenko, former Education Minister
Dmytro Tabachnyk, and former Health Minister Raisa Bohatyriova.
The regulation “concerning restrictive measures directed against
certain persons, entities and bodies in view of the situation in
Ukraine” was published early on Thursday and took effect at the moment
of its publication. It is valid for one year, i.e. until March 6, 2015.
