Cherkaskyi Ihor Borysovych

10 years as Ukraine's chief financial intelligence officer

Ihor Cherkaskyi has been the unwavering head of the State Financial Monitoring Service since 2014. A person who, by position, tracks suspicious financial transactions across the entire country, he did everything to prevent monitoring of his own property status.

Car fleet, paintings, and "wife did not provide information"

Already in his first 2016 declaration, his wife Natalia was registered as owner of six luxury cars: Mercedes-Benz R350, S500, G63 AMG, Lincoln Navigator, Maserati Quattroporte, and Infiniti QX56 — all purchased new from dealerships, worth several hundred thousand dollars together. Cherkaskyi does not specify the purchase prices. Thirty-eight valuable paintings are also listed without cost. Wife’s cash is noted as "family member did not provide information." According to the 2023 declaration: a 544 sq.m. house in Kozyn, two apartments in Kyiv, $480,000 and 148,000 euros in cash, and an Audemars Piguet watch without indicated value (ranging from several hundred thousand to 20 million UAH depending on the model).

Wife "consults" for $470,000 per year

With Cherkaskyi's salary of 9,500 UAH/month in 2015, his wife that same year received as a private entrepreneur 10,059,969 UAH — about $470,000. At the same time, she is listed as an employee of the insurance company "Unica" with a nominal salary of 8–10 thousand UAH/month — however, in 2016 "Unica" paid Cherkaskyi 1.8 million UAH in insurance benefits, and to his wife, as an "employee," another 250,000 UAH.

Start from Medvedchuk and Yanukovych's money

Cherkaskyi concealed part of his biography — notably associated with organised crime groups of the 1990s. He gained his entry into power through Medvedchuk and Turchynov. Already as head of the State Financial Monitoring Service, he turned a blind eye to tax "roll-ups" and funds originating from the Yanukovych era.