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Laundered money from Ukio Bankas to be confiscated
Danuta Pavilenene, BC, Vilnius, 30.01.2009.
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Print versionFor the first time in Lithuania, it is intended to confiscate "dirty" millions of dollars seized at a bank. The state budget is to receive money of Russian criminals, the daily Lietuvos Zinios writes.
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The State Tax Inspectorate of Kaunas County plans to appeal to court at the end of summer and request that the amount of 3.75 million U.S. dollars seized at Ukio Bankas would be recognized as a derelict sum and confiscated by allocating it to the state budget. It is the money that the Russian mafia attempted to launder via Austrian and Lithuanian banks in September 2006.
Then, a total of 16 million U.S. dollars and 1 million euros were transferred to 13 accounts of limited liability at Ukio Bankas. It is planned to confiscate all money in these accounts gradually.
The real owners of the money are officially not determined, yet it is likely that they belong to the criminal gangs of Ural.
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