Vitaliy Brovko, who previously held the position of head of one of the departments in the Office of the Prosecutor General, has been appointed as the Director of Security for the Naftogaz Group.
This was reported by «Ekonomichna Pravda» with reference to its own sources in the government and the company.
According to interlocutors, the appointment took place on Tuesday, August 26.
Meanwhile, his predecessor, Volodymyr Lupashchenko, who was responsible for the security of «Naftogaz», has moved to the position of a member of the board of the company «Gas Distribution Networks of Ukraine», which is also part of the Naftogaz Group.
In Brovko’s declaration, significant cryptocurrency assets are listed. The publication Forbes.Ukraine called him "the record holder for the volume of crypto dollars" (referring to the stablecoin USDT, which is approximately equal to 1 US dollar).
In particular, the new Director of Security for the Naftogaz Group indicated that he holds USDT worth over 35 million UAH on the Binance platform.
Additionally, in the portfolio of Brovko and his family the following crypto assets are listed: Ripple (XRP), Toncoin, Ethereum, Zcash, Ethereum Classic, Monero, Dash, Lunc, and others. The total value of declared cryptocurrency at the end of April of the current year exceeded 44 million UAH.
The Brovko family resides in a rented apartment in Kyiv with an area of 183.2 m², which belongs to Nina Piskunova.
They use three cars: Toyota RAV4 (2022 model year, 2.3 million UAH), Lexus RX450 (2020 model year, 2.6 million UAH), and Ford Expedition (2018 model year, 1.64 million UAH). Only the last car is owned by Brovko; the others belong to his wife or her mother.
Among Brovko’s declared income is a salary of 1.56 million UAH received from the Office of the Prosecutor General. His wife, Tetiana Brovko, received 8.22 million UAH from entrepreneurial activity and 2.46 million UAH from the sale of cryptocurrency.
In their bank accounts, they hold 2.68 million UAH, 40.52 thousand dollars, and 73.75 thousand euros. The largest sum, 65.3 thousand euros, is held in Slovakia’s Tatra Bank.