Responding to the information presented in the mass media regarding the restrained funds at AB Ukio bankas (hereinafter - „the Bank“), hereby we provide with the Bank commentary.
On 1 September 2006 the Bank, based on the information received from foreign banks, following the laws of Republic of Lithuania and internal procedures of the Bank has identified the suspicious monetary operations for approximately LTL 48 million, suspended the movement of these funds and immediately informed the Financial Crime Investigation Service in this respect. After these actions, Lithuanian law enforcement institutions applied temporal means of preservation for the aforementioned funds. During the pre-trial investigation period the Bank cooperated with the law enforcement institutions by providing the relevant information. On 5 June 2012 the Kaunas County Court has adopted the resolution to recognise the abovementioned funds as ownerless and to transmit them to the possession of the state. As far as the resolution came into force the funds were transferred to the deposit account of State Tax Inspectorate under the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania.
Hereby we inform that this event will not have any influence towards activity and financial results of the Bank.
The Bank in its activity follows the legal acts of the Republic of Lithuania, European Union and principals of the best international banking practice, regulating the AML and CTF measures.
Deputy Chairman – Head of Finance Division Arnas Zalys, 07-08-2012.
Marius Arlauskas, Head of Financial Institutions and Fund Raising Department, +370 37 301 332.