The US Department of Justice is pursuing the recovery of over $200 million belonging to former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko through civil forfeiture procedures, aiming to return the funds to Ukraine, according to Mary Butler, chief of the International Unit of the Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section. Butler explained that Lazarenko was convicted by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, where he served approximately six years in prison. However, the scope of the charges for which Lazarenko was convicted was significantly narrower than thos…