{"id":40234,"date":"2021-04-06T12:52:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T09:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=40234"},"modified":"2025-08-30T13:15:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T10:15:23","slug":"ukrainian-mps-declare-cryptocurrency-holdings-worth-billions-of-hryvnias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/ukrainian-mps-declare-cryptocurrency-holdings-worth-billions-of-hryvnias\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian MPs declare cryptocurrency holdings worth billions of hryvnias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of Verkhovna Rada deputies disclosed crypto holdings in their 2020 declarations.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of cryptocurrency holdings, Anatoliy Urbansky leads. As in the 2019 declaration, he <a href=\"https:\/\/public.nazk.gov.ua\/documents\/0125379e-4618-4b77-a529-6ecb47cafb26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">listed<\/a> 4256 BTC and 4256 Bitcoin Cash. At the time of writing, this sum was equivalent to almost 7 billion hryvnias or $252 million.<\/p>\n<p>Geo Lerosa&#8217;s cryptocurrency holdings also remained unchanged since 2019, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/public.nazk.gov.ua\/documents\/64103a70-4567-4450-8604-7692735a9a24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declaration<\/a> \u2014 he owns 49 BTC ($2.8 million) and 356 ETH (over $751,000).<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Vasyl Mokhan&#8217;s declaration lists a variety of assets \u2014 in addition to Bitcoin and Ethereum, he <a href=\"https:\/\/public.nazk.gov.ua\/documents\/52ac8618-f35e-4146-a2f6-c6d4952f756f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">owns<\/a> Litecoin, as well as XRP and NXT tokens.<\/p>\n<p>People&#8217;s deputy Serhiy Velmozhnyi <a href=\"https:\/\/public.nazk.gov.ua\/documents\/54826bc0-0e56-4bb8-9432-204114d86037\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declared<\/a> 11,428 XMR (over $3 million) belonging to his son. The fact of cryptocurrency ownership by family members was recorded in declarations by several other deputies, including Dmitry Gurin, Yuriy Kamelychuk and Inna Sovsun.<\/p>\n<p>Among the deputies who disclosed cryptocurrency in their declarations are also Oleksiy Ustenko, Oleksandr Gaydu, Yegor Chernev, Oleksandr Marikovsky and others.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the income of Verkhovna Rada deputy Kira Rudik from selling cryptocurrencies <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/verkhovna-rada-deputys-cryptocurrency-sales-income-more-than-doubles-her-salary\">more than doubled her salary<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of Verkhovna Rada deputies disclosed crypto holdings in their 2020 declarations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40235,"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-40234","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":"44","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40234","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=40234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40236,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40234\/revisions\/40236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}