Oleksandr Yanukovych former acting prime minister Serhiy Arbuzov (son of UBD president). Also in 2017, a Kyiv court rejected a lawsuit by Yanukovych to recover up to UAH 1,6 billion in damages from the National bank of Ukraine after it delisted the UBD following sanctions applied by the European Union. In 2016, Oleksandr Yanukovych and his father sought the annulment of their assets in sanction measures adopted by the EU in 2014, stating that the evidence presented was not factual. In 2015, Viktor Yanukovych was placed on Interpol's 'Wanted List'. Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov confirmed that a warrant was also issued
History of Crimea in the aftermath of the Euromaidan revolution. On 21 February, President Viktor Yanukovych agreed to a three-party memorandum that would have kept him in office until the end of the year. Within 24 hours the agreement was broken by the Maidan-activists and the president was forced to flee. He was dismissed the following day by a rump Verkhovna Rada, the legislature elected in 2012, and the Government he dismissed was replaced by a non-elected, illegal "Government", contrary to the Constitution. In the absence of a president, the newly appointed Speaker of the legislature, Oleksandr Turchynov, became acting President with limited