An Odessa lawmaker declared 719 thousand crypto dollars

Pavlo Shandra , a member of the Odesa Regional Council, declared 719,000 digital dollars (USDT), worth over 32.4 million hryvnias.

According to analysts at the OpenDataBot platform, this places him second in Ukraine in terms of the declared amount of this currency.

Pavlo Shandra is the beneficial owner of a number of companies engaged in the sale of medicines, real estate leasing, and computer programming.

The deputy’s declaration also includes: a non-residential space measuring 135.3 square meters, his wife’s non-residential space measuring 73.9 square meters, his wife’s office-store measuring 107.5 square meters, an apartment in which the deputy owns a 25% share, with an area of 157.6 square meters, and his wife’s apartment, which is 40 square meters. The deputy purchased four additional non-residential properties with a total area of 315.6 square meters in 2025.

The family’s vehicles include: a 2019 Range Rover Evoque owned by the deputy’s wife, a 2015 Toyota RAV4 owned by Pavlo Shandra himself, which he purchased in 2024, and a 2022 Mercedes-Benz EQS 450, which the deputy has been using since 2024. This car belongs to Tetiana Tsympylova, who owns 75% of one of the MP’s apartments.

Tetyana Tsympylova also gave the deputy a gift worth 400 thousand hryvnias in 2025. His family’s income also consisted of: 5,600 hryvnias in interest from a bank deposit, his wife’s salary at one of his companies—80,600 hryvnias—and 6,900 hryvnias in social benefits for his wife. The lawmaker himself earned 3 million 778.4 thousand hryvnias last year from business activities, 120 thousand from renting out property, 412.8 thousand hryvnias in salary from one of his companies, and 18 thousand in income from the sale of real estate.

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The family’s savings are diverse: Pavlo Shandra keeps 120,400 hryvnias in bank accounts, and he also holds 50,900 U.S. dollars in banks. He holds 150,000 hryvnias and 268,000 U.S. dollars in cash, and the deputy has lent another 40.2 million hryvnias to third parties. 

His wife has also lent money, though on a smaller scale—308,300 hryvnias—and has cash savings of 213,500 U.S. dollars, as well as small amounts in hryvnias, dollars, euros, and Turkish lira in banks.   

The largest amount of crypto dollars (USDT) was declared by Hanna Fazikosh, chair of the Transcarpathian Court of Appeals—over 1 million USDT, equivalent to nearly 46 million hryvnias. Third on the list was Maksym Kiselov, director of the Kyiv Research Institute of Forensic Expertise, who declared 647,000 USDT worth over 29.1 million hryvnias.

Кирило Бойко