KIEV, April 30 – The investigation into the circumstances of the illegal withdrawal of money from Ukraine will be conducted in parallel in several countries, accelerating the process of returning the seized funds to the Ukrainian budget, acting Prosecutor General Oleh Makhnitsky has said.

"Ukraine knows how to accelerate the return of billions of funds from abroad stolen from the Ukrainian nation and transferred illegally to other states," the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine said, citing Makhnitsky who was speaking at a press conference in London as a part of the Ukrainian Forum on Asset Recovery.

He said that society have high expectations regarding return of funds in the near term.