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Research materials will be published in parts
Ukrainian businessmen and officials appear in the journalists’ investigation. The materials will be published in parts.
Ukrainian businessmen were included in the report on money laundering in the world’s largest banks, published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ICIJ, writes the US edition Buzzfeed.
Journalists began publishing documents from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Administration (FinCEN), part of the US Department of the Treasury, according to which banks carried out suspicious transactions worth $ 2 trillion between 1999 and 2017.
The documentation consists of more than 2 thousand of so-called bank reports on suspicious customer transactions – SAR (suspicious activity reports). BuzzFeed released the file to the International Consortium for Investigative Journalism.
The materials were also received by the Ukrainian editions Slidstvo.Info and Ukrainska Pravda.
“Among the operations that the US department considers suspicious, companies associated with Kolomoisky, Akhmetov, Klyuev and other famous Ukrainians arise. Journalistic investigations about them will be published in the coming days and weeks by publications around the world,” said the editor in head of Slidstvo. Anna Babinets.
Some of the first materials refer to the former associate of former President Viktor Yanukovych Yuri Ivanyushchenko.
The report deals with the supply of equipment to the Bazhanov state mine in Makeyevka, where an accident occurred on July 29, 2011, which killed 11 people. It turned out that the supplier of the equipment was the Cypriot company Tornatore. He continued to do this after the accident; For example, in December 2011, according to FinCEN documents, Tornatore received $ 5.5 million from Gazenergolizing LLC, which provided mining equipment for its use. The next day, Tornatore transferred $ 999.9 million to a Russian leasing company, which was partially owned by the Russian government. Sums so close to the round, they point out in the article, are often a sign of money laundering schemes.
The co-author of the investigation, UP journalist Tatyana Kozyreva, writes that FinCEN has long been involved in the search and return of the assets of Yanukovych’s “family”. Most of the finds were transferred to Ukraine.
According to her, most of FinCEN’s materials are trillions of dollars in transactions involving the names of Ukrainian officials, oligarchs, and even presidents.
According to her, journalists will publish their investigations into the results of FinCEN documents in the coming days.
According to the Re: Baltica portal, which participated in the investigation, some Latvian banks allegedly helped several large Russian and Ukrainian businessmen and politicians transfer several billion dollars abroad from 1999 to 2017 through illegal schemes.
Thus, Mako Trading, with which Yanukovych Alexander’s eldest son was associated, transferred funds to his accounts at Latvian banks Aizkraukles Banka and Baltikums Bank. In 2015, the US Department of the Treasury imposed sanctions on Mako Holding, which included Mako Trading.
Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, according to the portal, from March to December 2014 through an account in the Latvian PrivatBank could withdraw almost $ 16.5 million to Canada.
Also, according to FinCEN, billionaire Dmitry Firtash could launder millions of dollars through Latvijas Trasta Komercbanka.
We will remember, the United States Department of Justice accused businessman Igor Kolomoisky of embezzlement and laundering of billions of dollars from PrivatBank.
In this case, the United States decided to confiscate two buildings from Kolomoisky, whose market value is $ 70 million.
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