Assets of only eight officials of Yanukovych regime frozen abroad - PGO

Head of Special Investigations Department at the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine Serhiy Horbatiuk said in a commentary to the Ukrinform agency. "Currently, the EU sanctions are imposed on eighteen ex-officials, the assets of eight of them have been found. We have confirmation about the arrest of the assets as part of the criminal proceedings only on [ex-parliamentarian] Ivaniushchenko and [ex-vice-premier] Arbuzov," he said. The investigator noted that the EU’s economic sanctions were the political decision. According to him, the investigation aims to arrest the assets within the criminal proceedings so that lifting of sanctions would have no negative consequences for the proceedings and their goals.