The family of the former head of the National Police department, Kupranets, acquired assets worth 6 million dollars after his dismissal

The family of the former head of the National Police department, Kupranets, acquired assets worth 6 million dollars after his dismissal

After being dismissed from the position of head of the Department of Economic Protection of the National Police, Ihor Kupranets’ family acquired real estate worth at least $6 million and a dozen diverse businesses: from fruit orchards and hotels to gas and granite extraction.

The family owns the “Iceberg” business center in Kyiv, apartments in the “Tetris Hall” residential complex and the club house The Garden, as well as three private houses with a total area of over 1,300 square meters.

Among the family’s assets are the luxury hotel Reymond in Truskavets, several houses in Pylypets, and dozens of hectares of land in the Lviv region. Another hotel in Bukovel is currently stalled at the construction stage.

The family has established a dozen diverse companies. These are engaged in, among other things, fruit orchards, juice production, nut cultivation, and solar power stations. They also own a Polish company involved in agribusiness.

Previously, the family owned companies engaged in the extraction of unique granite, gas production, and freight transportation. Officially, the Kupranets family has exited these businesses, though only nominally.

The Kupranets family’s business developed in parallel with the officer’s tenure in various law enforcement positions. Part of the business is conducted in partnership with Mariya Sitak. She is the sister of the wife of Kupranets’.

Sitak also owns several foreign agricultural companies, particularly in Poland and Slovakia. Some of the businesses involving the families of former law enforcement officers were previously linked to criminal cases investigated by the Department of Economic Protection under Ihor Kupranets’ leadership.

In particular, this concerns the case of the state-owned Holovynskyi quarry, the alienation of which was investigated by the Department of Economic Protection (DEP). Two years after the case was opened, Kupranets’ father, Mykhailo, became part of the ownership structure of the company under investigation.

Another case investigated by the DEP involved seized grain from an agro-holding in the Odesa region. During the investigations, law enforcement officers seized all the grain stored in elevators, including the grain of entrepreneurs who had storage contracts and were unrelated to the case. At that time, one of the entrepreneurs even obtained a court decision allowing him to retrieve his grain. However, he was thrown into a pre-trial detention center, and during that time, ARMA sold his grain along with the rest at an auction for a reduced price. The seized grain was purchased by a company within the orbit of the Kupranets families. Kupranets Sr. was directly involved in the business even while the case was still under judicial review.

After the businesses of the Kupranets families entered the international agricultural market, journalists noticed another interesting fact. In 2023, “Ukrzaliznytsia” created a separate subdivision in Poland – UKRAINIAN RAILWAYS CARGO POLAND. This company is designed to handle cargo transportation for clients to and from Europe under a turnkey model. In simple terms, it acts as an intermediary in transportation. This new Polish railway company was headed not by a railway professional, but by another former subordinate of Kupranets from the DEP, Mykhailo Plastun.