KYIV, July 18 - Pseudo-foreign direct investment in which the ultimate controlling investor is a resident amounted to $270 million in 2017, or 10.4% of all foreign direct investment in Ukraine, reads a report posted on the website of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU).

According to the central bank, so-called "round-trip investment" (when a resident withdraws funds that are then returned to the country in the form of foreign direct investment) amounted to $7.9 billion for the period from 2010 to 2017, or 22% of gross foreign direct investment in Ukraine over this period ($35.9 billion).