Written questions

Petr Aven

Commons · Question 19223 · Tabled 11 Dec 2024 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 20 Dec 2024

Question

Asked by Sir Iain Duncan Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will use her discretionary powers to redirect a portion of the £783,827 recovered from Petr Aven to support survivors of the conflict in Ukraine.

Answer

Answered by Seema Malhotra, 20 Dec 2024

The NCA secured a forfeiture of Petr Aven’s funds after breaches of sanctions regulations. The allocation of forfeited funds under POCA is governed by the Asset Recovery Incentivisation Scheme (ARIS), a discretionary funding model that allocates returned ...