MOSCOW, April 17 - RAPSI. At the request of Russia's Prosecutor General's Office, Ukraine has seized the shares and properties of several companies and enterprises owned by the late Boris Berezovsky, Prosecutor General Yury Chaika said in a report on law and order in Russia in 2012 which was forwarded to the Federation Council.

Berezovsky was found dead in his home in the UK in late March; the police said his death was consistent with hanging. The charges brought against him in Russia include fraud, failing to repatriate foreign currency revenues and abuse of office. He was granted political asylum in the UK in 2003.

Yury Chaika also said that, at their request, the Liechtenstein judicial authority had put a lien on more than $10 million deposited by Andrei Borodin in an insurance company's bank account. The former chief executive of Bank of Moscow, who fled to the UK in 2011, and his former deputy Dmitry Akulinin are wanted in Russia on charges of large-scale fraud involving 12.76 billion rubles (over $400 million) of state funds.

Overall, last year the Prosecutor General's Office sent foreign counterparts 61 requests for assistance in the corruption cases that are being investigated in Russia, including with the purpose of regaining embezzled assets.