Officials declared more than ₴156 million in online casino winnings

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In 2023, almost 6.5 thousand government officials declared more than 156 million hryvnias of winnings in online casinos, lotteries and betting companies.

Slidstvo.info writes about this.

Investigators write that officials most often declared winnings from the following LLCs: «Spaceix» («Cosmolot»), «Slots UA», «VBet Ukraine» and «Gamedev». And also from the Parimatch gaming company, which in March 2023 was sanctioned by the National Security Council.

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Olha Hudyk, a police officer of the patrol police of the Kosivskyi district police department of the Ivano-Frankivsk region, noted the biggest win of almost 44 million hryvnias in her declaration.

She noted that this is a win for her husband, Oleh Hudyk, who works as an operational officer in the same district police department. However, his declaration shows a profit of only 20 thousand hryvnias.

The policeman himself told reporters that he had not played at all during the year and that the prizes declared by him and his wife were a mistake.

People's deputy Yaroslav Zhelezniak noted that such «mistakes» could be the result of a tax evasion scheme.

«Some casinos scattered money on random people. This became apparent already when people started preparing the declaration and saw some receipts that were never officially entered on the card,» the deputy explained.

We will remind you that since June 22, a ban on the use of credit funds to participate in gambling came into force in Ukraine.