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About $70 billion has been withdrawn from Ukraine's financial system over the last three years, Ukrainian prime ministerial candidate Arseniy Yatseniuk has said.

“About $70 billion has been withdrawn from Ukraine’s financial system to
offshore accounts over the last three years. Now it’s clear that they
withdrew the funds that were raised as loans under state guarantees and
stolen by representatives of the previous government,” he said from the
parliament’s rostrum on Feb. 27.