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Hundreds of “squares” of real estate, luxury cars, art and antique collections — not every MP’s declaration has the patience to scroll to the end. But if you reach the section on financial obligations, you may surprisingly find that lawmakers can have multimillion-dollar debts. Who and how much the MPs owe — studied by analysts of the “Declarations” project (Bihus.Info).
According to information from declarations, the debt record holder is the MP from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, Ivan Vinnyk, who took loans in Alfa-Bank and PrivatBank for 316 million hryvnias. The Supreme Court even prohibited Vinnyk from leaving Ukraine until full repayment, and the state enforcement service deducts 20% of the MP’s salary every month (about 4 thousand). Simple arithmetic shows that at this pace it will take the deputy more than 6 thousand years to settle it.
In second place in our ranking is MP Ihor Kotvitsky. He has owed for more than 10 years 11 million dollars to his former deputy mayor of Simferopol, Nariman Gayalyyev. Converted to the national currency at the rate on 31 December 2017 year, the debt amount is over 308 million hryvnias.
More than 5 million dollars is owed to his own offshore Cyprus company Serada Enterprises Limited by Yulia Lvovychkina. She is also slow to return half a million hryvnias for aircraft charter services. As of the end of 2017 year, Lvovichkina’s debts amounted to 142 million hryvnias, earning her bronze in our ranking.
An experienced borrower is the owner of Kharkiv market “Barabashovo,” multimillionaire Oleksandr Feldman. Among his main creditors are Oschadbank, antique dealer Ruslan Shapiro, Kharkiv Regional Council deputy Andriy Stronov, former prosecutor of Crimea Vasyl Synchuk, and even his 83-year-old father Boris Feldman. The total amount borrowed by the deputy is 85,5 million hryvnias.
And closing the top 5 of our rating with his interfamily debt obligations is MP Yaroslav Dubnevych. According to declarations, his wife Nataliya borrowed 72,8 million hryvnias from Dubnevych himself.
The total amount of officially declared MPs’ debts was 1 billion 460 million hryvnias. Yet the real figure could be several times higher. In particular, a year ago Marianna Motrynich, in her segment for the program “Our Money with Denis Bigus,” talked about the billionaire loans of undeclared companies of MP Denys Dzenzersky, which they are not rushing to repay.
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