UNITED STATES OF AMERICA VS ALL ASSETS HELD AT BANK JULIUS, CREDIT SUISSE, BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA, BANQUE SCS ALLIANCE S.A. ETC. Other associates of Lazarenko who amassed multi-million dollar fortunes through their association with Lazarenko included Yulia Tymoshenko, Igor Makarov, Mykola Aghofonov and others. Between approximately 1992 and 1999, Lazarenko & his associates, including Kiritchenko, opened bank accounts in the United States, Switzerland, Antigua, Guernsey, Poland, Liechtenstein and Cyprus among other countries, and transferred the proceeds of their criminal acts of fraud, extortion, bribery, misappropriation, into out of these accounts in an effort to conceal, or disguise the nature or origin, location, source, ownership or control of these proceeds and property. During Lazarenko’s tenure as Vice Prime Minister in charge of energy, United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU) was one such corporation that was granted various privileges, including the authority to distribute natural gas to the Dnepropetrovsk region of Ukraine, UESU was controlled by Lazarenko associate Yulia Tymoshenko and others. From approximately December 1995 until some time in 1997, UESU received natural gas from RAO Gazprom pursuant to contracts entered into under this authority. In addition, on or about December 31, 1996, while Prime Minister of Ukraine, Lazarenko authorized execution of a $200,000,000 guaranty in favor of RAO Gazprom for the delivery of natural gas by UESU, thereby causing the Ukrainian government to pledge to use state funds to repay debts of UESU to RAO Gazprom. Beginning in approximately January 1996, UESU conveyed title to the imported natural gas to United Energy International, Ltd. (“UEIL”), an 85% shareholder of UESU that was created on October 17, 1995, at the direction of Yulia Tymoshenko, and diverted to foreign bank accounts belonging to UEIL the payments from Ukrainian customers for the natural gas they received through UESU. Between April 8, 1996, and December 31, 1996, rather than pay RAO Gazprom for the delivered gas with the money that had been transferred to UEIL, UEIL transferred approximately $140,000,000 to Somolli Enterprises, Cypriot company that was registered in Cyprus on October 8, 1992, and was controlled by Yulia Tymoshenko and others.
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