Seizure / forfeiture

Viktor Yanukovych: $1.50B moved in 2017

A Ukrainian court confirmed the confiscation of about $1.5bn in assets linked to his circle and held abroad.

The figure

  • Amount1,500,000,000 US dollars
  • CategorySeizure / forfeiture
  • CorridorKyiv, Ukraine → Nicosia, Cyprus
  • Distance1.7K km apart
  • Year reported2017
  • Documentation confidence78/100

What that amount buys

$1.50B is roughly 20 long-range private jets, 3.6K median-priced US homes, or 18.6K years of median US household income.

Viktor Yanukovych is publicly known as former president of ukraine. The arc drawn for this entry joins Kyiv and Nicosia because those are the places the two sides of the deal are based — it is not the route a wire took through the banking system.

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