{"id":40673,"date":"2021-04-13T16:07:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T13:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=40673"},"modified":"2025-08-30T15:14:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T12:14:01","slug":"ukrainian-bitcoin-millionaire-dmitry-golubov-becomes-putins-godfathers-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/ukrainian-bitcoin-millionaire-dmitry-golubov-becomes-putins-godfathers-aide\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Bitcoin millionaire Dmitry Golubov becomes Putin&#8217;s godfather&#8217;s aide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ukrainian MP Dmitry Golubov has been appointed as an aide to the head of the political council of the parliamentary faction &#8220;Opposition Platform \u2013 For Life&#8221; Viktor Medvedchuk. The information <a href=\\\"https:\/\/itd.rada.gov.ua\/mps\/info\/page\/1934\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener\\\">appeared<\/a> on the Verkhovna Rada&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>Golubov became the aide to the politician on a voluntary basis.<\/p>\n<p>The godfather of Medvedchuk&#8217;s daughter is Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>According to the 2019 income declaration, Dmitry Golubov owns 4,376 BTC (more than $275 million at current prices).<\/p>\n<p>According to The Wall Street Journal, the former MP is the leader of the hacker group Carderplanet, which stole at least $11.4 million from American bank accounts.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2005, Golubov was detained in Odessa on suspicion of creating a criminal organisation. He spent six months in Kyiv&#8217;s Lukyanivske SIZO, after which he was released on bail of 100,000 hryvnias. The politician denies his guilt.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier ForkLog reported that in the declarations for 2020 Ukrainian officials listed a total of <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ukrainian-officials-disclosed-more-than-46351-btc\">46 351 BTC<\/a>. Later one of the deputies called <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ukrainian-deputy-retracts-18000-btc-cited-in-his-declaration\">the information that he had 18,000 BTC<\/a> incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of the National Agency on Preventing Corruption <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ukraine-to-scrutinise-officials-declared-cryptocurrency-holdings\">intend to examine officials who own cryptocurrencies<\/a>, including the origin of funds for buying digital currencies.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <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>Former Ukrainian MP Dmitry Golubov has been appointed as an aide to Viktor Medvedchuk, head of the political council of the parliamentary faction &#8216;Opposition Platform \u2013 For Life&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40674,"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":[1965,16],"class_list":["post-40673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-member-of-parliament","tag-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"47","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40673","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=40673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40675,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40673\/revisions\/40675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}