Court Freezes Onyshchenko’s Deposits in Latvia

Solomyanskyi District Court of the Kyiv City froze the funds on deposit sub-accounts opened in the name of Oleksandr Onyshchnenko in Trasta komercbanka (Latvia), as well as the accounts of Rexlord Systems and Ostexpert Limited, companies affiliated with Onyshchenko, in Privatbank and Trasta komercbanka in Latvia, Ukrayinski Novyny reports.

The corresponding court decision dated July 28 based on the filing of NABU is published in the Unified State Register of Court Decisions. According to the information of the pretrial investigation, Onyshchenko is a beneficiary and signatory of Rexlord Systems, and Ostexpert Limited is connected to him through his mother.

On June 22, NABU and the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office uncovered the organizers of an alleged embezzlement scheme at UGV, a gas extracting company, which led to about ₴3 billion of losses to the state.

On July 5, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine allowed to prosecute and arrest the alleged mastermind behind the schemes, MP Oleksandr Onyshchenko.

On July 27, Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko signed the official notification of suspicion against Onyshchenko. However, the MP left Ukraine before then and announced he was going to seek political asylum in the UK.

On August 5, Onyshchenko failed to turn up for a questioning session with NABU detectives for the second time.

Source: Ukrayinska Pravda