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Declarants spend their earned money—whether earned honestly or not—over the course of a year: some invest it in businesses, some put it into jewelry and antiques, others, conversely, lend it to someone at interest. Analysts of the “Declarations” project (Bihus.Info) looked into which Ukrainian public officials you can “borrow until payday” from.
Earlier we already calculated the debts of members of parliament and found that they owed a total of 1,5 billion hryvnias. This time, on the contrary, we decided to find the biggest creditors.
The most generous among them turned out to be Member of Parliament Vitaliy Khomutynnik. The total amount of funds loaned by the parliamentarian and his wife, converted into hryvnias at the exchange rate on 31 December 2017, amounts to more than 408 million.
Trailing him by almost 60 thousand is Kharkiv businessman, hotel, TV channel and restaurant owner and, simultaneously, Kharkiv City Council deputy Oleksandr Davtyan. Third parties owe him and his wife 12,5 million dollars, or over 350 million hryvnias in the national currency.
Third place in our ranking was taken by former professional boxer and now Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko. He also likes to lend in dollars and euros. In total, Klitschko has lent the currency equivalent of 300 million hryvnias.
Just behind Klitschko, in fourth place is MP Yuriy Derevyanko. He lent his brother Oleh 10,5 million dollars. Rounding out the top five lenders is Kyiv City Council deputy Kostiantyn Yalovyi, to whose wife 225 million hryvnias are owed.
The second group of five includes a number of other deputies – Enerhodar City Council member of Zaporizhzhia region Serhiy Khorolets, MPs Yaroslav Dubnevych and Vadym Nesterenko, Kharkiv Regional Council member Albert Kononenko, and Odesa’s Oleg Kutadeladze.
In total, it turned out that officials prefer to lend money in stable foreign currencies—66% of all loans were issued in them. Overall, in 2017 officials declared loans outstanding totaling 12 billion hryvnias.
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