KIEV, Oct. 26 – Ukraine plans to empower the State Customs Services to arrest foreign currency if there is suspicion of money laundering, the state committee for financial monitoring reported.

"One of the first measures to be taken in Q1, 2010 is granting permission to arrest foreign currency carried across the border to officers of the State Customs Services," reads a press release of the committee.

The release says that now law-enforcement bodies have the right to arrest currency at customs control points.