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Ministerial bribe for a contract, missing physical evidence, and million‑hryvnia discrepancies in declarations: what Kupriyanova is hiding
The Ministry of Justice has been turned into a private shop for siphoning money and concealing crimes, where key positions are held by their people and expert reports are destroyed on orders from above. Heading this organized criminal group is Minister of Justice Denys #Маслов, his deputies #Сугак and #Гайченко, Department Director #Ткаченко, as well as the heads of expert institutions, including Anastasiia #Купріянова. They created a system that deliberately misses deadlines for forensic examinations, blocks investigations, and destroys physical evidence to protect defendants in criminal cases.
📌Our special attention is drawn to the director of the Scientific Research Center “Bokariuus Institute of Forensic Expertise,” Anastasiia Kupriyanova. During the active phase of our work on her case, we dug up a lot of interesting material, so we definitely have much to share with you.
Over her years in public service she declared discrepancies between income and expenditures totaling about 💰7 600 000 UAH. Ms. Anastasiia buys elite real estate and new cars, uses vehicles registered to third parties with the surnames Popov, Dovhan, and Matsenko, and does not disclose the real sources of those funds.
Her conduct as an official is also notable. Kupriyanova organized a loud corporate event at a subordinate state institution featuring performer Volodymyr Karafetov for $5 000, where songs in Russian were publicly performed.
Incidentally, her contract was expiring in the fall of 2026, and according to our information, during Minister Maslov’s visit to Kharkiv agreements were reached and an illicit benefit was handed over to extend her tenure. At the same time, her biological brother Mark #Довгань has been rapidly advancing in his career; after serving in the police he moved to the penitentiary system and is preparing to head the Poltava Penal Institution No. 23.
Additionally, Kupriyanova unlawfully appropriated the results of a research project to develop a methodological manual, even though, according to the project plan, the research supervisor was designated as S. #Тюлєнєв, and the work paid for with public funds was carried out by responsible executors 32. At the start and during the main execution period of the project in the years 2024—2025, Kupriyanova headed only the Dnipropetrovsk Research Institute of Forensic Expertise and only became associated with the Scientific Research Center in 04.08.2025, which did not stop her from unjustifiably listing herself as scientific supervisor in the final report in order to appropriate others’ scientific achievements.
This dubious status later allowed her to receive a Commendation from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and to win an NAS competition with the award “Scientist of the Year,” yet none of the public materials about the award specify the scientific works or achievements for which she was honored.
✅Our team carried out colossal work to expose these abuses. We filed 1 complaint, 5 appeals and 6 information requests to the relevant and law‑enforcement bodies, which effectively ignored the appeals; as a result we turned to investigative judges and secured 3 rulings obligating the entry of information into the Unified Register of Pretrial Investigations (URPI):
🔻a ruling of the Komunarskyi District Court of Zaporizhzhia in case No. 333/6815/26 dated 24.06.2026,
🔻a ruling of the Saltivskyi District Court of Kharkiv in case No. 643/12959/26 dated 24.06.2026,
🔻a ruling of the Sobornyi District Court of Dnipro in case No. 201/9405/26 dated 24.06.2026.
In addition, the Territorial Department of the State Bureau of Investigation in Melitopol has already entered data into the URPI and is investigating criminal proceedings No. 62026080100005262 dated 02.07.2026 under part 2 of Art. 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Despite this, court orders remain unenforced and the investigation is conducted inefficiently, so we continue working with even greater enthusiasm.
Related materials:
▫️Kupriyanova’s legacy: missing physical evidence, delayed expert reports, and a criminal case in court
▫️One step from justice or behind the scenes of scandals: how the head of the Bokariuus Institute’s career is built
▫️Judicial fiasco for the Ministry of Justice: how Kupriyanova and her accomplices botch expert examinations and hide millions
▫️The deputy minister’s protégé Kupriyanova sells forensic reports and buys luxury cars
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