Arseniy Yatsenyuk: France to help Ukraine to track property and assets of present and former Ukrainian officials

France will help Ukraine to find property and bank accounts of Ukrainian officials on the territory of that country on request by the law enforcement bodies of Ukraine, National Anti-Corruption Bureau and State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine. Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced at a Government meeting on Thursday, May 14.

He reminded that on May 13 during his working visit to Paris he had met with President of France Francois Hollande and Prime Minister of France Manuel Valls: "French colleagues will help to find the property and bank accounts of Ukrainian officials on the territory of France by inquiries of law enforcement bodies of Ukraine, Ministry of Internal Affairs, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, the State Financial Monitoring Service".

"Former and present civil servants who have property in French Riviera. We will look for your property to prevent you from hiding it in offshore companies or from hiding your assets and bank accounts registered on third parties", stressed Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

The Prime Minister stressed that relevant work was carried out by the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine: "We will further cooperate with law enforcement agencies of the United States of America and the European Union member countries as well on monitoring of all property and all assets of the former Yanukovych’s regime and the corruption of the former and present officials."