MOSCOW, September 2 (RIA Novosti) - Austria has frozen the assets of a company owned by the son of the former Prime Minister of Ukraine, Mykola Azarov, and Ukrainian businessman Serhiy Kurchenko, German broadcaster Deutsche Welle reported.
LPG Trading Company has been under investigation since March on suspicion of money laundering, the broadcaster said.
Kurchenko and Azarov’s business in Austria and Germany was conducted "through the Dutch company Stichting Depositary Donau Investment Fund, the owners of which are hidden in offshore areas." It took Austrian law enforcers six months to legally prove that Yanukovych’s entourage is involved in this business, Deutsche Welle wrote.
At present, Austria has frozen the assets worth around six million euros, all of them belonging to the entourage of the former Ukrainian president.
On March 6, the European Union published a list of suspects in the misappropriation of public funds in Ukraine. The list includes Viktor Yanukovich, the former head of the presidential administration Andriy Klyuyev and 16 Ukrainian officials and businessmen. Their funds have been frozen in the EU.
