MOSCOW, July 17 (RAPSI) – The Pechersky District Court in Kiev has granted a motion filed by the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office to seize the property of former president Viktor Yanukovych, RIA Novosti reported on Friday.

An investigative officer of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office asked the court to seize the property of Tantalit, the official owner of Mezhyhirya, which Yanukovych chose as his residence after he won the 2010 presidential election.

The court also seized the company’s charter capital of about $6.6 million.

Yanukovych fled Ukraine after a coup in February 2014. Later that month, the Ukrainian parliament voted to return the Mezhyhirya estate to the state. Yanukovych argued that he bought the property for $3.2 million, but the Administrative Court of the Kiev Region ruled in favor of the parliament.