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Who Feeds the Deputy: the Richest Families of People's Deputies
Members of the Verkhovna Rada often indicate in their declarations that they earn far less than their wives/husbands or children.
INSIDER selected two dozen of the wealthiest families of people's deputies.
When calculating, the editorial office took into account the deputies' families' incomes for the 2014 year, their bank accounts, and the value of securities and shares in the charter capitals of companies they own. In the ranking these amounts are consolidated.
According to the deputies' declarations for the 2014 year, the wealthiest family was that of Valentyn Nychyporenko — a deputy from the Revival group. Total assets amount to 105 million UAH.
Over the year the deputy's family declared 1,6 million UAH in income. In banks, Nychyporenko's closest relatives keep 19,3 million UAH; in securities — 84,05 million UAH. They own three apartments with a total area of 178 sq. m, a house of 114,2 sq. m and 23 land plots totaling 79,6 thousand sq. m. The deputy's family drives a Honda CR‑V and a Range Rover. Nychyporenko himself declared 86,3 million UAH.
He owns three luxury cars: a BMW X5, a Morgan Aero 8 and a Mercedes‑Benz 320.
The family of another Revival group deputy, Hennadiy Bobov, has 87,2 million UAH, of which 41,8 million UAH is income for the 2014 year, 40,1 million UAH are securities and shares in company capital, and 5,3 million UAH are funds in bank accounts. The Bobovs do not own houses or apartments, but 11,6 hectares of land are registered to them. The family owns a Range Rover, year 2012.
Bobov is engaged in agricultural business. Together with his wife Svitlana he owns the company "Panda", which leases more than 200 thousand hectares of land in the Cherkasy region.
The family of Oleksandr Tretyakov, a deputy from Petro Poroshenko Bloc, declared 58,35 million UAH. Of these, 2,2 million UAH is income, 35,46 million UAH are in bank accounts, 20,7 million UAH are contributions to companies' charter capitals. The Tretyakovs use two luxury cars: Porsche 997, Porsche Cayenne. They also have a house registered to them of 586 sq. m, and two plots totaling 7500 sq. m. Tretyakov personally declared 2,6 million UAH in income. He has 32,6 million UAH in bank accounts. He uses 4 land plots totaling 1,8 hectares, and he drives a premium Maserati Cambiocorsa.
Maserati Cambiocorsa
The close relatives of Yaroslav Moskalenko, a deputy from the People's Will group of Ihor Yeremeyev, declared 54,2 million UAH: 20 million UAH — annual income, 9,3 million UAH — funds in banks, 24,7 million UAH — nominal value of securities. The Moskalenkos own a garden house of 416 sq. m, an apartment of 163,6 sq. m and two plots totaling 1,2 hectares. The deputy's family owns a premium Bentley Continental.
Moskalenko himself declared 1,86 million UAH in income. He has 250 thousand UAH in accounts. He uses a Porsche Cayenne. He owns two apartments with a total area of 223 sq. m.
The family of a deputy from the Opposition Bloc, Oleksandr Vilkul, declared 53 million UAH. Of these 2,9 million UAH are incomes, and 50 million UAH are bank deposits. The former regional declared 257 thousand UAH in income and 5 million UAH in bank deposits. The Vilkul family has an apartment of 62 sq. m and two cars: a Chevrolet Express and a Volkswagen Multivan.
The wife of non‑affiliated deputy Oleksandr Hereha, former Kyiv City Council secretary Halyna Hereha, received 43,4 million UAH. Of this sum 17,8 million UAH was last year's income. She has 5 million UAH in bank accounts, 19 million UAH in company charter capital, and 1,5 million UAH in securities. Halyna Hereha uses 20,1 hectares of land, a house of 120 sq. m and two apartments with a total area of 340 sq. m. As is known, the Hereha family owns the chain of construction hypermarkets "Epicenter".
The family of the "regional" from the Opposition Bloc, Yuriy Boyko, received 8,5 million UAH last year. Another 26,7 million UAH Boyko's relatives keep in bank accounts, and 270 thousand UAH — in securities. Boyko himself declared only 160,7 thousand UAH, and keeps 858 thousand UAH in the bank. His family owns two apartments of 446 sq. m, a house of 444,8 sq. m and 3,9 hectares of land. Boyko himself has an apartment of 113 sq. m, a house of 30 sq. m and 0,25 hectares of land. The Boyko family has three cars: a VAZ 2101, a Mercedes GL and a Volkswagen Touareg.
Another deputy who is "supported by" his family is people's deputy Volodymyr Bandurov from People's Will. Over the year he received 395,7 thousand UAH. He also has 445 thousand UAH and 333 thousand UAH, respectively, in banks and in securities. Bandurov drives a Mercedes S500, has two apartments totaling 698 sq. m and 3,7 hectares of land. At the same time his family received 11,06 million UAH in income, keep 23 million UAH in bank accounts and use premium cars Bentley Continental GTV and a BMW 645. The family also has two apartments totaling 217 sq. m registered to them.
Bentley Continental GTV8
In the 2014 year the family of the "front‑liner" Oleksandr Prysyazhnyuk received 2 million UAH in income. The deputy declared 168,5 thousand UAH. His family keeps 27,6 million UAH in banks. Contributions to company capitals amount to 2,77 million UAH. Prysyazhnyuk has 684 thousand UAH in banks, 5,25 million UAH in company capitals. He drives a BMW X6, while his relatives drive a Mercedes CL 500 and a BMW X6. Prysyazhnyuk owns three apartments totaling 403 sq. m, a house of 321 sq. m and 0,64 hectares of land. The family has three apartments totaling 570 sq. m.
The "regional" Serhiy Kivalov also appears to live off his family, which declared 32 million UAH. Of these 4,13 million UAH is income for the 2014 year. Another 27,9 million UAH are in bank accounts. Kivalov personally declared 416 thousand UAH in income and 2,78 million UAH in bank accounts. His family uses a Mercedes‑Benz S 500, has an apartment of 113 sq. m, a house of 672 sq. m and 10 sotkas of land. As for Kivalov's own real estate, he owns an apartment of 113 sq. m, a house of 518 sq. m and 18 sotkas of land.
The wife of the former parliament speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn declared 22 million UAH, including 1,4 million UAH in income, and 20,6 million UAH in bank accounts. Lytvyn personally received 2,65 million UAH in income in the 2014 year. He keeps 13 million UAH in banks. The Lytvyn family lives in a house of 260 sq. m and owns 9,6 hectares of land. They use a Toyota Land Cruiser.
The family of the deputy from the People's Will group, businessman Andriy Derkach (son of former SBU head Leonid Derkach) owns 19,7 million UAH. Of these 10,7 million UAH are securities, 8,7 million UAH are funds in banks, and 0,5 million UAH is income for the 2014 year. The deputy's own income is 180 thousand UAH; he keeps 660 thousand UAH in bank accounts and 7,5 thousand UAH in securities. The Derkach family owns two apartments of 245,5 and 236,9 sq. m respectively, a land plot of 0,15 hectares, a house of 287 sq. m and a Mercedes‑Benz GL 500.
The family of BPP deputy Yaroslav Dubnevych declared 18 million UAH. Of these 15 million UAH were income for the 2014 year. Another 2,2 million UAH are in the bank. Dubnevych personally declared 1,1 million UAH in income, and has 200 thousand UAH in banks. He owns securities worth 1,7 million UAH, and his contributions to company charter capitals are 870 thousand UAH.
Yaroslav Dubnevych owns nine houses totaling 972 sq. m, three apartments totaling 287,5 sq. m and land plots totaling 7,85 hectares. His family's property includes 15 apartments with a total area of 1143,5 sq. m, two houses of 487,2 sq. m, four garages of 176,6 sq. m and land plots of 9,7 hectares. The Dubnevychs' declaration also lists 5043,5 sq. m of other real estate.
The income of Bohdan Dubnevych, Yaroslav's brother and also a BPP deputy, in 2014 amounted to 5,8 million UAH. Another 6 million UAH are in banks. The family received 849 thousand UAH in income, has 1,5 million UAH in banks and 0,5 million UAH in securities. They own two cars: a Toyota Land Cruiser 200 and an Audi Q7.
Bohdan Dubnevych's family has 49 apartments totaling 3632,2 sq. m; 12 houses totaling 3307 sq. m and 111 hectares of land. Other real estate totals 3411,6 sq. m.
The Dubnevych brothers are known as owners of KRT Corporation LLC, which attempted to monopolize the supply of steel parts for Ukrzaliznytsia.
The Dubnevych brothers. Photo: wz.lviv.ua/Vlad Sodel
The family of Viktor Baloha declared 18,122 million UAH, of which 16,6 million UAH are in securities and in companies' charter capitals. The Baloha family's income in 2014 year amounted to 1,4 million UAH. Baloha himself earned 553,6 thousand UAH that year. The deputy has an apartment of 123,4 sq. m and 14800 sq. m of land. His relatives have two apartments of 314,1 sq. m and 19000 sq. m of land.
Relatives of the "lawyer of Rinat Akhmetov" and deputy from the Opposition Bloc Yuriy Voropayev declared 17 million UAH. Almost half of these funds are income for the past year. The deputy himself reported he received 355 thousand UAH in a year, owns three apartments totaling 233 sq. m, a house of 583 sq. m, 3000 sq. m of land and uses an Audi Q5. He has 2,2 million UAH in bank savings.
Close relatives of one of the wealthiest deputies, Vitaliy Khomutynnik, declared 16 million UAH, of which 3,7 million UAH is income for the past year. Khomutynnik's official income for the year was 294 million UAH.
The wife of the Opposition Bloc deputy, Yuriy Boyko's associate, Yuliya Ioffe declared 15,6 million UAH. Of this amount 13,8 million UAH is held in bank accounts. The deputy reportedly lived on 694 thousand UAH last year. He keeps 6,6 million UAH in banks.
The family of Andriy Shypko from the Revival group received 0,5 million UAH last year. Another 14,5 million UAH they keep in the bank. Shypko's official income was 174,1 thousand UAH. The Shypko family uses a Mercedes‑Benz R 350 and a Toyota Land Cruiser. They live in an apartment of 136,7 sq. m, two houses totaling 735,3 sq. m and own 7561 sq. m of land.
The wife and daughter of Ruslan Lukyanchuk from the People's Front together have 13 million UAH. Their incomes for the year amounted to 5,8 million UAH. The head of the family reportedly received 177 thousand UAH for the same period and owns three premium cars: two Audis and the exclusive WIESMANN ROADSTER MF3 roadster.
WIESMANN ROADSTER MF3
The family of co‑owner of "Puzata Khata", front‑liner Vyacheslav Konstantinovsky has 12,9 million UAH: 8,2 million UAH in banks, 4,7 million UAH — investments in enterprises. The deputy himself officially has 285,6 million UAH.
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