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Former acting minister Oleksandr Borniakov, who resigned and became head of the Supervisory Board of the Innovation Development Fund, concealed his cryptocurrency assets and accounts in the US and the UK from the NACP.
This concerns cryptocurrency assets. Law enforcement officers seized documents showing that Borniakov and other persons systematically failed during 2021-2024 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.
Borniakov was assisted in this by businessmen Vyktor Ryazantsev Anatoliyovych and Ihor Prykhodko Vladlenovych. The investigation established that accounts were opened at 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 at American CitiBank N.A. (13-5266470).
At the same time, Borniakov filed tax declarations of property and income for 2020-2024, according to which for the indicated years he received income in the total amount of 16,24 million UAH and had taxes withheld in the amount of 1,53 million hryvnias. An analytical study is currently underway regarding possible tax nonpayment by Borniakov and co-conspirators.
Information from the cryptocurrency exchange Binance about Borniakov’s holdings was also sent to the Department for Combating Legalization of Proceeds from Crime of the State Tax Service. 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 on accounts at the KUNA crypto exchange.
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