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The former acting minister Oleksandr Borniakov, who resigned and now chairs the supervisory board of the Foundation for the Development of Innovations, should have filed a declaration after his dismissal, but has not done so yet.
Thus we propose that the former government official still indicate in his declaration what he had long been hiding.
This concerns cryptocurrency assets. Law enforcement officers seized documents indicating that Borniakov and others over 2021–2024 years systematically did not declare income received from the sale of financial assets, operations with crypto assets, securities and other financial transactions, totaling more than 2 billion hryvnias, with the aim of evading taxes on a particularly large scale.
Businessmen Viktor Ryazantsev and Igor Prykhodko helped Borniakov in this. The investigation established that accounts were opened in various financial institutions, with total payments and receipts amounting to:
The State Financial Monitoring confirmed the existence of an open account for Borniakov with Interactive Brokers (U.K.) Limited (EBGSBF.00003.ME.826). In addition, the official concealed an account opened at CitiBank N.A. (13-5266470).
Meanwhile, Borniakov filed tax declarations on property and income for 2020–2024 years, according to which for the specified period declared income totaling 16,24 million hryvnias and paid taxes totaling 1,53 million hryvnias. An analytical study is currently ongoing regarding possible tax evasion by Borniakov and related persons.
Information was also obtained from the cryptocurrency exchange Binance regarding Borniakov's assets, which was sent to the Department for Combating the Laundering of Proceeds from Crime at the State Tax Service. In his official declaration, no account on this exchange is indicated. Now Borniakov will have to explain not only to law enforcement but also to Ukrainians who donated their last funds to the Armed Forces of Ukraine how he acquired such wealth. Moreover, where did Borniakov and Fedorov divert 45 million dollars accumulated on accounts at the crypto exchange Kuna.
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