Former National Police chiefs own companies and elite real estate worth millions of dollars

Former senior officials of Ukraine’s National Police, who once investigated economic crimes, are now owners of numerous companies and real estate properties. They have also brought family members into businesses that were previously the subject of criminal investigations.

This is according to an investigation by the Bihus.Info project.

General Ihor Kupranets, who headed the Department for Economic Protection from 2015 to 2019 and later served as deputy head of the National Police starting in September 2021, now leads the investment fund “Markus Max,” officially owned by his father, Mykhailo Kupranets. The fund is involved in agribusiness, green energy, commercial real estate, and even gas extraction.

Journalists found that the general’s family owns the “Iceberg” business center in Kyiv, luxury apartments in elite Kyiv residential complexes Tetris Hall and The Garden, three private houses with a total area of more than 1,300 square meters, the upscale Reymond hotel in Truskavets, dozens of hectares of land in the Lviv region, and a hotel under construction in Bukovel. The estimated value of all this real estate is at least $6 million.

Additionally, the family owns an agricultural company in Poland and businesses related to fruit and juice production and processing. Previously, they also owned gas and granite extraction complexes, although the Kupranets family has since formally withdrawn from those industries.

Journalists also referenced an earlier investigation by Kupranets’s department into the Holovynsky quarry, in which his father Mykhailo Kupranets later appeared in the ownership structure.

Ihor Kupranets refused to explain this “economic miracle” of his family when approached for comment.

Maria Sytak, the sister of the wife of Kupranets’s former first deputy Serhiy Vyazmykin, is listed as the owner of agricultural companies in Poland and Slovakia.

Another businessman among former senior police officials is Yevhen Koval.

After a change in government and his departure from law enforcement, Koval’s 67-year-old mother, in February 2025, purchased a more-than-200-square-meter apartment in the upscale Kyiv residential complex Signature. A year earlier, in 2024, she began large-scale construction of the Shypit Spa & Resort in the village of Pylypets in Zakarpattia, complete with its own cinema.

Nearby, another hotel called Dacha on Mahura was opened by Koval’s close relatives—his sister Kateryna Kret and her husband. The husband, previously a small-time trader, now holds a low-ranking position as an operative in the Department of Strategic Investigations. Their income does not plausibly support the construction and opening of such a hotel.

The same can be said for other premium properties owned by Koval and his relatives.

Currently, Koval has returned to public service as an advisor to the head of the organizational-analytical department of the National Police. Meanwhile, his family’s businesses continue to thrive.