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KYIV. December 21st UNN. The GPU commented on a judicial decision to lift the sanctions of former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov. Despite the abolition of sanctions, his assets in Ukraine and abroad are arrested in the course of criminal cases. It is reported by UNN with reference to the page of the President of the Office of the Attorney General of Ukraine, Andriy Lysenko, on Facebook.
"Almost all of the assets discovered by former Yanukovych-era senior officials, including Azarov, were arrested in relevant criminal proceedings in Ukraine and abroad. Arrest of the aforementioned assets in the criminal proceedings will continue irrespective of the effect of the administrative sanctions of the EU and Switzerland, "wrote Lysenko.
Lysenko added that all assets could be returned to Ukraine after the entry into force of the relevant court decisions. The Attorney General's office also assured that the Court's annulment of the decisions of the Council of the European Union regarding the extension of sanctions against individuals would affect not the current sanctions regime of the European Union. him in 2015 after the introduction a year earlier
Due to the situation in Ukraine in March 2014, the European Union imposed sanctions on the former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, as well as To 17 former Ukrainian officials, who then continued their activities. Mykola Azarov was on the list of sanctions.
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