The family business of the head of the National Police traded with companies whose activities were investigated by his National Pol.
The sister of the head of the National Police, Ivan Vygovsky, has a share in the company Yugnefteprodukt LLC, which is engaged in the wholesale trade of fuel. During 2022-2023, the company traded with at least two defendants in criminal proceedings, the investigation of which was carried out by the police under the leadership of Vygovsky.
Ivan Vygovsky has headed the National Police of Ukraine since January 2023. Before that, he headed the Kyiv department (2021-2023) and the Poltava department (2020-2021) for several years; even earlier, he headed the investigation in the Nikolaev department (2016-2020), and also worked for more than 10 years in the structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Nikolaev region. In all his declarations, Vygovsky has noted for many years that he constantly uses other people’s property, officially rented or borrowed, although the appearance of these assets among the people on whom they are registered raises questions.
So, after his appointment to the capital, Vygovsky settled in a private house near Kiev worth UAH 6.5 million. It was registered in the name of an old family friend from Nikolaev, however, the latter, according to journalists, did not have income commensurate with such a purchase, moreover, she could not answer the journalists’ question about where “her” house was located, or how many squares it had, etc. d.
In addition, Vygovsky used cars registered to his mother-in-law for a long time. First it was the Hyundai Santa Fe, then the Volkswagen Touareg. Then the mother-in-law sold the Touareg and gave it to her daughter as a gift (900 thousand UAH). The indicated amount was just enough to buy an Audi SQ5, although the mother-in-law herself subsequently purchased a new Audi SQ8. These cost from 100 thousand dollars, and Vygovsky’s mother-in-law has neither a business nor even a salary anywhere for many years.
In the end, a private house in the suburbs of Nikolaev, in which the policeman lived when he worked in the local department, was registered in the name of Vygovsky’s sister, Oksana Alkhovik. It is interesting that at the time of the purchase she herself did not live there, but in a small village near Nikolaev, where she worked in a rural school as a primary school teacher, with a salary of about 60 thousand UAH/year. A few years later, Vygovsky’s sister was hired to work for her brother, in the Nikolaev police. Then she also moved to the city, but settled in a small house of 32 sq.m. on the outskirts.
It is interesting that after being appointed to the police, the former rural teacher began to acquire a business. In 2019, she became one of the founders of Yugnefteprodukt LLC, which is engaged in the wholesale trade of fuel. Her partner in this company for several years was the husband of the owner of the house in which Vygovsky now lives. Now the sister of the head of the National Police has half of the business with annual revenues of about 400 million UAH.
At the same time, it turned out that Yugnefteprodukt LLC, the sister of the head of the National Police, had been trading for several years with persons involved in criminal proceedings of the National Police itself.
For example, in 2022 one of the suppliers of Yugnefteprodukt LLC was Exxon UK LLC. At that time, Ivan Vygovsky headed the Kyiv police, and in June of that year it was the investigators of the Main Directorate of the NPU of Kyiv who began to investigate the proceedings regarding the supply of jet fuel to a state-owned enterprise. They suspected losses of UAH 120 million, misappropriation of property and laundering of proceeds. In that production, Exxon and a whole group of related companies of which it was a member appeared as the supplier itself. The police went on searches, seized accounts, confiscated seals - including that of Vygovsky’s sister’s supplier. Despite the crime from the National Police, Vygovsky’s sister’s company continued to trade with this group of companies, simply through other legal entities: the newly created Exxon UK LLC and Ukrtransitgaz LLC. It is also interesting that in 2023, after Vyhovsky climbed the career ladder and headed the entire National Police, the Exxon case was also taken up to the Main Directorate of the National Police. And already in the summer, the family business began trading with Exxon.
Already in the main chapter another similar story happened. At the beginning of 2023 The Main Investigation Department of the National Police took up the case of an entire criminal group, which, according to the investigation, organized illegal import and trade in fuel. Thus, according to investigators, in the ports of Izmail (Odessa region), fuel was simply poured past customs - and therefore past control and taxes - into fuel tankers, which then transported it around the country and sold the fuel for cash, that is, past control and taxes. The investigation assigned one of the key roles in this story to Continental Trade LLC and its sister trading house Ukrainian Terminal. They allegedly themselves were involved in the shadow trade in fuel, and helped others evade taxes. At the same time, that year, when Vygovsky’s investigators were investigating the activities of Continental, this company became one of the largest suppliers of Yugnefteprodukt, that is, Vygovsky’s sister.
In addition to being a wholesale trader, Vygovsky’s sister is developing a retail business. In 2020, she and her partners bought two hectares of land at the entrance to Nikolaev, on which they launched a gas station under the KIV OIL brand. When journalists visited this gas station at the end of April, they were selling fuel without a license, without receipts and with payment in cash or on the card of a man who sells coffee in a nearby cafe.
In response to the request, Vygovsky noted that he did not know for what money his sister bought the house in which he lived. The policeman does not know where the mother-in-law got the cars he drove. As for the crime involving the contractors of Yugnefteprodukt LLC, he supposedly knows nothing about it, because the National Police investigators are independent and he does not interfere in their work.
