The Finance Ministry welcomed the arrest of the assets of Kolomoisky

The Ministry of Finance has poprivetstvoval positive decision of the High court of England to arrest all of the assets of Igor Kolomoisky and Gennady Bogolyubov. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry.

“The state actually spent almost 140 billion for the recapitalization of PrivatBank due to the fact that before he had withdrawn the money or granted under-secured loans, which no one returns. 140 billion is the money of every citizen, and they must return to the state budget,” he prokomentiroval Finance Minister Alexander danyluk.

The English high court on December 19 arrested all assets of Kolomoisky and Bogolyubov, as well as six companies that they likely belong to or are under their control. The decision was made in the case “the state Bank of Ukraine PrivatBank against the ex-owners of PrivatBank”.

PrivatBank said that Kolomoisky and Bogolyubov withdrew from the Bank nearly $2 billion and plans to return the money along with interest – more than $2.5 billion.

Kolomoisky saidthat the decision about the temporary seizure of assets – during the pendency of the case in court.