Ukraine officials fail to take millions of declared crypto-assets into account-

Ukraine officials fail to take millions of declared crypto-assets into account-

personal declarations of asset submitted by politicians and government officials in Ukraine have shown that many considerable investments in cryptocurrency have made. However, some of them were unable to demonstrate their digital stocks or to take account of it, reported local media.

legislator loses over 40 btc with stolen vehicle in the Ukraine

dmitry Gurin, member of the Ukrainian parliament from ’s servant of the people, according to an examination of his explanation of 2020, which is quoted by the" Slovo I Dilo "portal, has supposedly lost a considerable amount of cryptocurrency on car thieves. The MP claims that the digital money was stored on a hardware wallet that disappeared with his car that was stolen at the beginning of this year.

 Millions of declared crypto-assets to take into account

Data The legislator revealed that his wife Maria Saltycova . had btc in the last year worth 22.5 million griwna (around 840,000 US dollar for the current course or over btc prices at the time of writing), reported forlog. The Ukrainian National Agency for Corruption Prevention (NAPC) said Gurin had not presented any documents that confirm the correctness of this information.

The parliamentarian, who led his own advertising company in the past decade, made an oral explanation that the vehicle on the 21st added that the case was examined by the police in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro.

Gurin is no exception in the Ukrainian political elite. At the beginning of September it was announced that the head of the state regulatory service ( srs ), Oleksiy Kucher, had failed to prove the possession of an even larger crypto stock. According to his explanation submitted in December, Kucher had when he left the governor of the Governor of the Oblast Charkiw, 77 btc worth around 13.1 million Griwna at the time of purchase (almost $ 490,000 for the current course of the Griwna).

If the coins had been sold at the time of writing, they would have returned more than $ 3.7 million. Tax returns show that the official and his family members have earned fewer than 1 million Griwna (approx. $ 37,000) in the past two decades since 2001. NAPC believes that this indicates that Kucher has given false information about his possession of the cryptocurrency. In a press release of September 6, the agency stated:

Bitcoin has a public address that confirms that it belongs to a specific person. The head of the SRS could not specify any public cryptocurrency address.

In their declarations of asset for 2020, 652 civil servants in Ukraine have admitted to owning a total of 46 351 btc 2.2 billion US dollars), among other things, such as eth , ltc , bch , and XMR , the opendatabot platform, which monitors public registers, has unveiled . This spring, the National Agency for Corruption Prevention promised to check these figures.

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