“5.9 billion hryvnias (about $198 million -

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) have been seized on the corporate rights of several more enterprises associated with Russia,” the department said in a Telegram channel. 

According to the police, a number of enterprises were discovered in the Kirovograd region, from 25 to 98% of the authorized capital of which belong to Russian citizens.

It is noted that the enterprises were involved in the rental of real estate, the cultivation of grain, as well as in metallurgy.

Criminal proceedings are held under the article "Legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime."

Earlier, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine seized the property of Russian and Belarusian enterprises worth about $12 million.

Prior to this, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine announced the arrest of assets of the corporations Rostec, Tatneft, RUSAL and HMS Group for a total amount of more than $152.2 million.