The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine (PGO) in the framework of international legal agreements has sent a motion to a number of countries about the arrest of more than ten bank accounts, to which funds from fraud with drilling rigs were transferred, Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko has said.
Lutsenko told reporters after a meeting of the procedural committee of the Verkhovna Rada, the investigation deals with the inflating twice the price of rigs, carrying out a fictitious tender and intention to plunder more than $300 million.
“Members of the criminal organization managed to commit the first embezzlement of about $144 million at the first rig,” the prosecutor general said.
He noted that currently, the investigators know not only how the plan for misappropriation of funds was prepared, but where the stolen funds were transferred.
“Thanks to the institution of agreement with the investigation, we have the specific account numbers of specific foreign banks, where probably $144 million funds, received by criminals from this transaction, are accumulated,” Lutsenko said.
In this context, he stressed that at present the prosecutor’s office has sent requests to several countries within the framework of international legal agreements to arrest these accounts and track movement of funds.
