{"id":40445,"date":"2021-04-09T10:11:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T07:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=40445"},"modified":"2025-08-30T14:09:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T11:09:50","slug":"ukrainian-deputy-retracts-18000-btc-cited-in-his-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/ukrainian-deputy-retracts-18000-btc-cited-in-his-declaration\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian deputy retracts 18,000 BTC cited in his declaration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vyacheslav Mishalov, a deputy of the Dnipro City Council, who declared 18,000 BTC (more than $1 billion) for 2020, said the data were erroneous. The information was reported by the TV channel UA: First <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/kaploushenko\/30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TV channel<\/a> UA: First.<\/p>\n<p>The official said that he had made changes to his electronic declaration but did not notice the cryptocurrency line.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I have some amount of bitcoins, it&#8217;s a large sum too, but of course not that much,&#8221; explained Mishalov.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The deputy added that he has already obtained the statement and will soon submit updated data to the National Agency on Prevention of Corruption (NACP).<\/p>\n<p>The deputy did not disclose the amount of his bitcoins.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Urbansky, deputy head of the Odessa Oblast Council, who declared 5,328 BTC (more than $307 million at the time of writing), said that he allegedly acquired the cryptocurrency as early as 2009, when the price of a single coin was $1.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;When they are legalized in Ukraine, then we will do something with them. For now they will stay where they are,&#8221; commented Urbansky.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, ForkLog reported that in the 2020 declarations Ukrainian officials <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ukrainian-officials-disclosed-more-than-46351-btc\">stated a total of 46,351 BTC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of the NACP intend to verify the officials who hold cryptocurrency, including <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ukraine-to-scrutinise-officials-declared-cryptocurrency-holdings\">the provenance of funds used to purchase digital currencies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full feed of news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dnipro City Council deputy Vyacheslav Mishalov, who declared 18,000 BTC for 2020, said the data were erroneous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40446,"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":[18,558,16],"class_list":["post-40445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-taxes","tag-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"46","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40445","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=40445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40447,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40445\/revisions\/40447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}