MIA official declares $63,000 in cash and crypto despite criminal case

MIA official declares $63,000 in cash and crypto despite criminal case
MIA official declares $63,000 in cash and crypto despite criminal case

Declaration of large cash sums and digital assets

Oleksandr Yaroslavovych Boyko, who holds the position of Head of the Department of Organisational Registration Activities and Driver Licensing at the Regional Service Centre of the MIA Main Service Centre, responsible for Rivne, Volyn and Zhytomyr regions, submitted a declaration with figures that warrant attention. The document contains information about the possession of a significant amount of cash in foreign currency and crypto assets, the origin of which does not match the official earnings of the official.

According to the data, Boyko declared $63,000 in cash. At the average exchange rate for 2025, this amount is equivalent to over 2.6 million hryvnias. Additionally, approximately 61,500 hryvnias were recorded in accounts at PrivatBank. Crypto assets on the Binance exchange were declared separately, including 2 ETH (worth approximately 124,500 hryvnias, acquired in July 2025), as well as Solana, Arbitrum, CFX, CHZ tokens and others. The total valuation of the crypto portfolio is at least 170,000–180,000 hryvnias.

Official income and previous experience

In 2025, Boyko received a salary from three units of the MIA Main Service Centre totalling approximately 680,000 hryvnias. The distribution of income was as follows: 231,000 hryvnias from the centre in Kyiv, 228,000 hryvnias from the centre in Khmelnytskyi, Ternopil and Chernivtsi regions, and 221,000 hryvnias from his main place of work in Rivne, Volyn and Zhytomyr regions.

It is worth noting that Boyko previously worked as the head of the controversial Traffic Service Centre No. 8041 in Kyiv. He is also a subject of criminal case No. 42023102090000084, opened in April 2023 under Part 3 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Currently, on the official MIA website, he is listed as the Deputy Head of the Regional Service Centre of the MIA Main Service Centre in Khmelnytskyi, Ternopil and Chernivtsi regions (Khmelnytskyi city).

Property status and vehicles

Among the vehicles listed is a Toyota Land Cruiser (2013), which is in free use from Yaroslav Ivanovych Boyko, presumably the declarant's father. Regarding real estate, Boyko declared an apartment in the village of Horishni Sherivtsi in Chernivtsi region (right of use since 2017, owner — Svitlana Mykolaivna Boyko) and a 40-square-metre apartment in Rivne rented from October 2025. The owner of the latter is Halyna Mykolaivna Prokazyuk; the rental cost is not specified.

Discrepancies and need for audit

Previously, the media outlet Bihus.info accused Boyko of providing false information in his declaration. Specifically, his wife's Instagram suggests that she uses cars not listed in the declarations: presumably a BMW X3 (price from $50,000), Volkswagen ID.4 (from $30,000) and BMW IX3 (from $60,000). These cars were registered in the name of Boyko's father-in-law over the past few years and were bought new. Boyko himself then explained that his wife was in Chernivtsi, so he only declared what he knew personally. Currently, his wife has disappeared from the declaration.

The submitted document lacks information about expenses or other sources of income that could explain the presence of large sums of cash in dollars and cryptocurrency. This creates grounds for a full audit by the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP). The agency has the authority to determine whether the declared assets correspond to official income, whether sources of funds are hidden, and to verify the correctness of the indication of the legal regime of property (in particular, regarding the free use of the car and the rental of housing). Since Boyko's position is related to the issuance of documents for vehicles and driver licensing — an area with high corruption risks, any discrepancies between income and assets are of critical importance. If necessary, NACP can transfer the materials to law enforcement agencies.

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