The Prosecutor General's Office and the National Corruption Prevention Agency are looking abroad for the assets of Russian citizens close to the Kremlin in order to confiscate their property in favor of Ukraine. This was stated by the head of the NAPC Alexander Novikov in an interview with Radio Liberty.

According to him, there are certain international mechanisms for this: an appeal to the International Criminal Court and the ECtHR, as well as to the national courts of countries that have begun investigating Russian war crimes.

“To date, EU countries have imposed sanctions on the property of 619 Russian persons, which means freezing assets. Ukraine is working to find such assets,” Novikov said..

The head of the NAPC said that by order of the Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova, a coordination group was created, headed by a representative of the NAPC.

“We work together with investigative journalists from different countries, with the Russian opposition, with international law firms, law enforcement agencies of the European Union and the United States. This whole process is headed by the Office of the Prosecutor General,” Alexander Novikov explained..

In addition, the head of the NAPC announced the need to increase the number of sanctioned Russian citizens and companies in the world to 6,000..

In his opinion, now “it is not the search for assets that is critical, but an increase by at least 10 times in the number of individuals and legal entities of the Russian Federation on which sanctions have been imposed”.

“Not even all the oligarchs close to Putin, who actually finance the war against Ukraine, are now sanctioned. In particular, sanctions have not been imposed on all members of the Russian government..

Sanctions are imposed only on every third enterprise of the military-industrial complex of Russia. Therefore, today it is extremely necessary to increase the number of sanctioned Russians from six hundred to six thousand people.. I am sure that the assets of all will be found, frozen and confiscated in favor of Ukraine,” Novikov said..

Earlier, the European Union announced that it was negotiating with countries helping the Russian Federation to circumvent sanctions..