Ventspils Mayor Aivars Lembergs' (For Latvia and Ventspils) assets, arrested in an ongoing criminal case and previously managed by Swiss attorney Rudolfs Meroni which, pursuant to the Riga Regional Court's decision, have been handed over to the Provision State Agency, have actually not been arrested as the Latvian authorities never asked their counterparts abroad to arrest these assets, Lembergs said in a statement to the media on August 20.