Rubel Andriy Mykolayovych

Former head of the elite anti-clan department of the Strategic Investigations Department — himself not without 'family' questions regarding wealth

Police Colonel, career operative: criminal investigation, HUBOZ, Internal Security Department, Kharkiv Police. Since October 2022, he headed the Strategic Investigations Department — an "anti-clan" unit with over 3,000 employees aimed at exposing organized crime. In April 2026, he was dismissed from his position during another wave of reshuffles in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. A hunter of clans who himself long belonged to the "untouchables."

Mother-in-law's Cayennes, ski resort, and millions in savings — all registered to relatives

Back in 2020, Bihus.Info published an investigation revealing that Rubel's father and mother-in-law acquired millionaire savings, elite real estate, expensive Porsche Cayennes, and even a stake in a ski resort — wealth completely disproportionate to their official incomes. Rubel himself "worked his whole life for the state," while the luxury assets were carefully registered to relatives. In 2019, he also embarrassed himself in the competition for the State Bureau of Investigation. The chief of "strategic investigations," whose most delicate scheme is his own declaration.