Multinational Efforts Focus on Recovering Billions of Ukraine Loot

Viktor Yanukovych and his “kleptocrat” inner circle took massive sums of cash and other assets from Ukraine since his presidency began in 2010.   Now the challenge is locating and recovering that loot.   And, experts say the task is daunting, and that it will probably take years to accomplish.   There’s no official figure as to the size of Yanukovych’s theft. But Ukraine’s acting Prosecutor General, Oleh Makhnitsky, has said it could be as much as $100 billion. That...

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