The representative of the city council of the Ukrainian Kramatorsk Rostislav Solod turned out to be a millionaire, despite his young age. The RBC edition drew attention to the declaration of the 19-year-old deputy.
Malt has indicated that he owns 185,000 Monero coins. Now this unit of cryptocurrency is trading at around $ 133. Thus, the deputy’s cryptocurrency assets in monetary terms amount to $ 24.5 million (UAH 688.2 million or RUB 1.8 billion).
The declaration states that Malt acquired the coins back in 2015 at the age of 14. Then the cost of one unit of Monero cryptocurrency ranged from $ 0.4 to one dollar. Thus, he spent from 74 to 185 thousand dollars on it. According to RBC, Solod’s parents are current deputies Verkhovna Rada from the Opposition Platform – For life ” Natalya Korolevskaya and Yuri Solod.
Since December 4, Ukraine has been subject to criminal liability for false declaration of income. Violators can be fined or sentenced to imprisonment in a correctional center.
Since October 27, a constitutional crisis continues in the country, associated with the abolition of a number of provisions of anti-corruption legislation. The Constitutional Court blocked the electronic declaration of income of officials, deprived of key powers of the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (NAPC). The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky did not agree with this and demanded the dissolution of the court, which is not included in the powers of the country’s leader.