{"id":35063,"date":"2021-01-20T16:34:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T14:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=35063"},"modified":"2025-08-28T23:33:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T20:33:16","slug":"media-ukrainian-mps-hold-more-than-200-million-in-cryptocurrency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/media-ukrainian-mps-hold-more-than-200-million-in-cryptocurrency\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: Ukrainian MPs hold more than $200 million in cryptocurrency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Ukrainian MPs hold cryptocurrency worth about 5.7 billion hryvnias (over $200 million at the time of writing), according to the publication <\/span><a href=\\\"https:\/\/biz.censor.net\/resonance\/3242768\/hto_z_narodnih_deputatv_volod_kriptovalyutami_na_57_mlyarda_griven\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">BusinessCensor<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Calculations were based on 2019 declarations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The largest holding is held by Anatoliy Urbansky. According to <\/span><a href=\\\"https:\/\/declarations.com.ua\/declaration\/nacp_7b20fffa-c380-4310-91b1-cddade28fb4e\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">declarations<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">, his wallet contains 4,256 BTC and 4,256 Bitcoin Cash. As of writing, the assets were worth about $150 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Most MPs prefer to store Bitcoin, though some own other cryptocurrencies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Deputy Geo Leros, in addition to 49 BTC ($1.7 million), disclosed <\/span><a href=\\\"https:\/\/declarations.com.ua\/declaration\/nacp_e3076708-7a1c-4ea5-a5df-fc1bc64e2e61\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">356 ETH<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\"> (almost $460,000), Alexey Ustenko <\/span><a href=\\\"https:\/\/declarations.com.ua\/declaration\/nacp_a28faeef-ec40-42c0-9b3d-c86bf3f125c2\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">listed as intangible assets<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\"> three cryptocurrencies \u2014 10 BTC (over $340,000), 15 ETH (about $19,000) and 6 Litecoin (less than $900). The head of the Holos party, Kira Rudyk, has 31 ETH ($40,000) and 1 BTC. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The publication also included Rostyslav Sodol, the son of Verkhovna Rada deputies Natalia Korolevska and Yuri Sodol, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/son-of-ukrainian-mps-declares-23-7-million-in-monero-cryptocurrency\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">with 185,000 XMR<\/span><\/a> <span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">(over $27 million). According to the declaration, he acquired cryptocurrency at age 14. He was included on the list because at the time of purchase he was a minor and likely acquired them using his parents&#8217; funds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">In March 2020, Ukraine&#8217;s National Agency on Corruption Prevention published rules for declaring cryptocurrencies as a form of \\&#8221;intangible assets\\&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full stream of news, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian MPs hold cryptocurrency worth about 5.7 billion hryvnias (over $200 million at the time of writing), according to BusinessCensor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1965,558,16],"class_list":["post-35063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-member-of-parliament","tag-taxes","tag-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"27","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35065,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35063\/revisions\/35065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}