What are Sergei Vyazmikin and Igor Kupranets doing after leaving the Police Economic Protection Department?

Although the name of the former deputy head of the Department of Economic Protection of the National Police of Ukraine Sergei Vyazmikin became known to the general public only in 2022, when he was noticed on the Cote d'Azur of France in the company of the People's Deputy from the Opposition for Life Protection Igor Abramovich, he had gotten into scandals before that.

Mostly in the company of his boss, the head of the Economic Protection Department of the National Police of Ukraine, Police General Igor Kupranets.

Also already former - Igor Mikhailovich, like his faithful subordinate Sergei Anatolyevich Vyazmikin, after his release from the ranks of the National Police, went into business. And here, to the credit of both, it must be admitted that both officers achieved their high positions in the Department of Economic Protection not only thanks to connections, but also due to deep professional knowledge. Because both their property and their business structures are carefully hidden behind chains of dummies. And finding these structures is very difficult. Although some things are still possible - a business must work and earn money, so you cannot do without contacts and exposure. And even open data indicates that Vyazmikin and Kupranets, as during their service, are closely related to each other.

According to register data, Sergey Anatolyevich Vyazmikin is the head of Fart Capital Closed Non-Diversified Venture Corporate Investment Fund JSC. However, until June 2021, he was the beneficial owner of this fund. Together with Mikhail Grigorievich Kuprants:

Currently, Setak Maria Alexandrovna is considered the beneficiary of the fund. This is Sergei Vyazmikin’s mother-in-law, who speaks of the fact that leaving the owners of the Fart Capital fund for Sergei Anatolyevich is a pure formality. And Mikhail Grigorievich Kupranets is the father of Igor Kupranets. So his non-involvement in the fund raises doubts.

Moreover, Igor Kupranets is considered the beneficiary of another venture fund, Marcus Max. Where before him the beneficiaries were alternately Mikhail Grigorievich Kupranets and Olga Nikolaevna Kupranets.

And here a real Klondike opens up to us. If Olga Nikolaevna Kupranets is not listed among the registers, then Mikhail Grigorievich Kupranets, who is the father of a former policeman, despite his venerable age, is active in business. He is the owner of at least ten companies:

These companies are active and do everything from renting out property to granite mining and generating electricity. And here we return to 2017, when General Igor Kupranets, the then acting head of the Economic Protection Department of the National Police of Ukraine, was involved in a scandal with a laying company that made money on mooring fees in four ports, where instead of the state, private companies from one group. Its name is “Portoservice-Ukraine”, and through dummies it belonged to Kupranets. The story is old, but it confirms a simple fact - Police General Igor Kupranets, who, by the way, was the Deputy Head of the National Police, has been earning money using his official position for a long time. Although, as his declaration shows, he lived on one salary.

Although the same declaration tells us that it is pure linden. Even a quick look at it leads to interesting thoughts - part of Kupranets’ real estate is registered in the name of his wife and children (which is understandable) and in the name of citizen Nadezhda Anatolyevna Leonets.

Moreover, this is not some house in a remote village, but an apartment in Kyiv with an area of ​​300 meters and a plot of land of a thousand meters in the same place. However, neither the head of Kuprants nor the NAPC had any questions about the declaration. The same Nadezhda Anatolyevna Leonets is registered with Kievskie Pirozhki LLC, which she owns jointly with Leonid Voloshun.

We will not go deeper, but the above is an example of how the investigation against Kupranets should develop, if he were in Germany or at least Poland: investigators would simply unwind all the chains leading from his last name. It would be enough for several dozen, or even hundreds of volumes of the criminal case. But, as everyone understands, “this is not the place for you.” Therefore, Igor Kupranets quietly resigned and went to venture capitalists.

As well as his former subordinate, Sergei Vyazmikin. Who, unlike his boss, did not sit quietly, but appeared in the company of People’s Deputy Abramovich in Nice. What exactly connects the former deputy head of the Department of Economic Protection of the National Police of Ukraine Sergei Vyazmikin and also the former people’s deputy from the Opposition for Life Protection Igor Abramovich is no secret. “The Last Bastion” wrote about this in an article with the rather eloquent title “Tax schemes from the Cote d'Azur.” We recommend reading it, but the gist of it comes down to the following. Vyazmikin, Kupranets and Abramovich, through the head of the State Tax Service of Kyiv Oksana Datiy (the one who found wish notes about a million dollars, fur coats and travel), set up large-scale schemes to block tax invoices. For the unblocking of which they took considerable amounts of money from interested parties - we were talking about tens of millions of dollars.

There were other interesting names in this story. That's why it also ended in nothing. Vyazmikin himself quietly went into the venture business through JSC “Closed Non-Diversified Venture Corporate Investment Fund Fart Capital”. Which is registered to his mother-in-law Maria Alexandrovna Sitak. Igor Kupranets’ share in the same fund is also registered in her name.

Maria Sitak is the wife of the famous businessman Alexander Petrovich Sitak, who, it seems, registered most of his companies also in her name. So far she owns 24 companies, and it is very difficult to figure out which of them belong to Sitak and which belong to Vyazmikin or Kupranets. Moreover, Sergei Vyazmikin’s wife, Oksana, who owns the AMO-SV DMCC company in the UAE and the corporate rights of First Ukrainian Agrarian Company LLC, is also involved in this family business. So it is very difficult to understand this intricacy of rights and shares. And here the investigation would have its say, which (you won’t believe!) was started after Vyazmikin was found in Nice, but it, as everyone (again) understands, ended with a loud statement about its beginning.

In addition to the Fart Capital venture fund, Vyazmikin’s name is on the list of founders of OSSOYO LLC, the beneficiary of which is Maria Sitak. Vyazmikin was also the owner of Avtodrom LLC for some time, the beneficiary of which is now considered to be Sergei Vladimirovich Shevchuk. However, other owners are hidden behind the Cypriot offshore Ventis Limited and the Cypriot Zenios Georgios, who is a pure denomination:

Again, this chain must be unraveled by Ukrainian law enforcement officers, they have both the authority and personnel to do this, but for some reason they were not interested in offshore companies, in which their former colleague and boss Sergei Vyazmikin was clearly involved. The fact that Sergei Vladimirovich Shevchuk is also pure denomination, or “pound”, is evidenced by his track record:

Pay attention to the second line - the “owner” of a successful business, Sergei Shevchuk, donated blood to get at least a penny. However, for some reason, law enforcement officers again were not interested in such an interesting person with whom Sergei Vyazmikin is associated.

Why? The answer, as everyone understands, is obvious. Nobody wants to touch the former heads of the Department of Economic Protection of the National Police of Ukraine Kuprants and Vyazmikin, since both of them, although they left the police, did not lose their connections at the highest level of state leadership. This is evidenced by the fact that both of these surnames floated away in connection with the surname of Oksana Datii. And, as former People’s Deputy Igor Mosiychuk argued, there is at least one more powerful family in this scandal – Daniil Getmantsev. And those who stand behind him. If this is so (and no one has refuted Mosiychuk’s statement), then it becomes clear why no one is touching either Igor Kuprants, Sergei Vyazmikin, or their business empire. Although everything lies on the surface. Well, let’s not forget about the omnipotence of the “blue lobby” in law enforcement agencies. And that Kupranets and Shilo are old acquaintances and “comrades-in-arms.”