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Former acting minister Oleksandr Borniakov, who resigned and became chairman of the supervisory board of the Innovation Development Fund, concealed his cryptocurrency assets and accounts in the United States and the United Kingdom from the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP).
This concerns cryptocurrency assets. Law enforcement officers seized documents showing that Borniakov and other persons, during 2021-2024, systematically failed to declare income received from the sale of financial assets and from transactions with crypto assets, transactions with securities and other financial operations totaling more than 2 billion UAH, with the aim of evading payment of taxes in especially large amounts.
Businessmen Viktor Ryazantsev and Ihor Prykhodko assisted Borniakov in this. The investigation established that accounts were opened in various financial institutions for which the total amount of payments/receipts is:
The State Financial Monitoring Service confirmed that Borniakov had an open account with Interactive Brokers (U.K.) Limited (EBGSBF.00003.ME.826). In addition, the official concealed the existence of an account opened with the American CitiBank N.A. (13-5266470).
At the same time, Borniakov filed tax declarations of property and income for 2020-2024, according to which income totaling 16,24 million UAH was received in those years and taxes totaling 1,53 million UAH were withheld. An analytical study is currently underway regarding possible tax nonpayment by Borniakov and Co.
Information from the cryptocurrency exchange Binance about Borniakov’s assets was also sent to the State Tax Service’s department for countering legalization of proceeds from criminal activity. There is not a single account on that exchange in his official declaration. Now Borniakov will have to explain not only to law enforcement but also to Ukrainians, who gave their last funds to the Armed Forces, how he acquired such wealth. Moreover, where did Borniakov and Fedorov put 45 million dollars that they accumulated in accounts on the KUNA crypto exchange.
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