Deputy Director of the Department of Lease and State Property Management of the State Property Fund of Ukraine, Andriy Melnyk, in his electronic declaration indicated five tons of gold bars stored in Russia, as well as billion-dollar securities of the company CJSC “KITON 21 VEKA”. The gold is represented by bank ingots of the European standard 999.9 according to GOST 28058-89 with a total weight of five metric tons, which corresponds to 160,753.61 troy ounces, and its value is estimated at 79.8 million euros, approximately four billion hryvnias.
According to the declaration, Melnyk also owns numerous real estate properties and 29 unfinished construction sites. In addition, he has a significant amount of valuable property, the main part of which is waste dumps containing rare earth metals, located on the territories of various state-owned coal mining enterprises, in particular, State Coal Mining Company Rovenkyantratsit, State Coal Mining Company Sverdlovantratsit, State Coal Mining Company Krasnodonvugolya and State Coal Mining Company Sverdlovskantratsit.
The total volume of individual dumps ranges from 17.5 thousand cubic meters to 1.5 million cubic meters, which indicates significant volumes of valuable natural resources.
At the same time, according to the declaration, Melnyk and his son received winter assistance in the amount of 1,000 hryvnias each.
