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Published ranking of TOP-5 Ukrainian owners of offshore companies
Electronic declarations showed that almost half of foreign companies owned by Ukrainian civil servants and deputies are located in offshore jurisdictions.
This was reported by Bigus.Info.
An analysis of the entire corpus of electronic declarations by the “People’s NABU” project showed – 115 declarants indicated that they own companies abroad. The total number of such companies is 375 and they are located in 41 countries worldwide. Of these, 237 companies 58 declarants are in offshore zones.
Leading the top five by number of offshore companies is the head of the parliamentary group “Party of Revival,” Khomutynnik Vitaliy Yuriyovych. He owns 9 companies registered abroad.
With a result of 13 companies, he is outrun by the deputy head of the parliamentary group “People’s Will,” Ivakhiv Stepan Petrovych.
Third place is shared by three people: member of the parliamentary faction of the party “Petro Poroshenko Bloc,” Yefimov Maksym Viktorovych, and members of the parliamentary group “People’s Will,” Fursin Ivan Hennadiyovych and Feldman Oleksandr Borysovych.
Each of them has 22 company in offshore jurisdictions. Opposition Bloc deputy Novynskyi Vadym Vladyslavovych reaches a round number – he declared 30 companies abroad. And the leader in the ranking is a member of the Opposition Bloc and sister of the former Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine – Lyevochkina Yuliia Volodymyrivna. She has 45 offshore companies to her name.
Where do they hide the money?
The leader by number of offshore companies with Ukrainian owners is Cyprus – the island hosts 136 enterprises that could theoretically pay taxes to the Ukrainian state budget. In second and third places are the British Virgin Islands and the Seychelles. Ukrainian oligarchs entrusted 50 and 20 companies to them, respectively.
In the following offshore jurisdictions the number of companies is considerably smaller: Luxembourg – 5, Switzerland – 4, Jersey – 3, Malta – 3, Saint Kitts and Nevis – 3, Hong Kong – 2, Cayman Islands – 2, Singapore – 2, U.S. Virgin Islands – 1, Bermuda – 1, Bulgaria – 1, Gibraltar – 1, Marshall Islands – 1, UAE – 1, Isle of Man – 1. Declarations also indicate 28 companies registered in Russia.
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