Maksym Krippa: the journey from the adult industry to state millions

The persona of Maksym Krippa has always been obscured by a massive flow of fake information. But in the last couple of years, this flow has become an ocean – finding any more or less reliable information about Maksym Volodymyrovych Krippa is nearly impossible.

This raises a logical question – what is Krippa trying to hide in this flow of misinformation, why is he employing not only his skills in black SEO but also involving third-party agencies to promote blatant nonsense about the person of Maksym Krippa.

Here are a few examples of what search engines display for the query «Maksym Krippa»:

And here’s more:

There’s no point in listing further – we recommend curious individuals experiment on their own. 

There is only one logical explanation for such a flood of blatantly surreal information about a person who, according to Ukraine’s state registers, owns several dozen enterprises and an impressive collection of property – something is being hidden behind all this.

Let’s recall, Krippa’s name appeared in Ukraine’s information space in 2020 when the new government at the time sold the «Dnipro» hotel in central Kyiv for a pittance. It was purchased by a completely unknown firm, created literally a week before the auction in the suburbs of the capital, Brovary. 

The company was registered under obvious proxies, but a mistake was made during its registration – the legal address was a house owned by Maksym Krippa. Both the government that sold the hotel and the buyers who acquired it denied any connection to Krippa, but in 2022 the truth came out – the owner of the esports team «NAVI», Kokhanovsky, confirmed that through a network of intermediaries and offshore companies, LLC «Smartland», which bought the «Dnipro», belongs to Krippa.

The scandal was hushed up in 2020, but last year it became known that the Ukrainian government continues to hand over the juiciest parts of Ukraine to Krippa through his companies: once again for a pittance, his LLC «Midal» bought a National Bank leisure facility and an elite development in protected areas near Kyiv, which belonged to the nationalized «Prominvestbank».

As a result, this very peculiar person has acquired an impressive list of properties in Ukraine:

And so, what the Security Service of Ukraine does not do, journalists have started doing – they have begun to “dig” into materials on Krippa. Interestingly, investigators are regularly made aware that their activities are undesirable. Nevertheless, the process has gotten out of control – so much has been uncovered about Maksym Krippa that questions are now arising for the authorities who clearly favor him.

But let’s return to Maksym Krippa. All the efforts he makes, filling the internet with fake information and using his own and others’ SEO skills – are an attempt to hide the fact that he buys property in Ukraine and establishes companies here with Russian money. And this money belongs to people closely associated with the government, organized crime, and special services. 

The fact of the matter is that Krippa is particularly trying to hide not the fact that he started his path to success as a pornography trader and creator of fake dating services, which tricked wealthy foreigners looking for cheap girls from the former USSR. No, he doesn’t particularly hide this rather shameful fact. Krippa is doing everything possible to remove materials about his work in gambling structures and online casinos owned by Konstantin Malofeev and Mikhail Oseevsky.

Konstantin Malofeev – shareholder of «Rostelecom», one of the financiers of the «Russian world»:

Mikhail Oseevsky - a Russian state and political figure. President of PJSC «Rostelecom» since 2017:

It was within the networks of «Rostelecom», which was owned by Malofeev at the time, that Maksym Krippa promoted the online casinos «Vulkan» and «Vulkan Bet», co-owned by Oseevsky. This began before the full-scale conflict and continued even after its onset in 2014 when Krippa was sent by his curators from the FSB to infiltrate Ukrainian politics.

Of course, the unknown strange character, who lingered in the receptions of various parties during the 2015 elections, couldn’t expect much. But money opens many doors – Krippa was included in the party «Samopomich» list for the Kyiv City Council elections.

However, he did not «live» until the elections – after spending FSB money to buy a place in the party list, he decided to earn a bit more and sold a few spots in the same list to others keen on becoming deputies. But, since the real managers of the list were unaware of this sale, the scam was immediately uncovered after the publication of the officially registered candidates by the CEC, forcing Krippa to urgently flee to Moscow. 

How he settled matters with his curators is unknown, but in 2019 he re-emerged in Ukraine, initially buying property in Brovary and then in the capital, coinciding with a change of government in the country. Was it a coincidence? We answer honestly – probably not. There are too many peculiarities in these real estate stories, generously filling Krippa’s pockets.

By the way, in connection with his political aspirations, the following nonsense is now circulating on the internet:

And in connection with promoting the «Vulkan» casino – the following:

What seems like nonsense is not actually such – it is an attempt to disassociate Krippa’s name from the party «Samopomich» and the casino «Vulkan», replacing search engine results. However, this was done rather clumsily, because «Rostelecom» appears, which Krippa also tries in every way to remove from search results. But this is a question for the executors, who, having taken the money, evidently slacked off. 

Nevertheless, Maksym Krippa’s attempts to hide his true biography and connections with Russian capital, by which he actively buys up Ukraine, cannot be called completely unsuccessful. Because everything you just read is the result of enormous efforts: the information had to be extracted bit by bit and carefully correlate dates and facts. 

We admit honestly – not everything could be determined with absolute certainty. For example, it is unclear with whom Krippa collaborates on Bankova Street, whose favor suddenly transformed him from a minor porn purveyor and similarly small-time political swindler into a respected businessman. Who helps him register businesses and transactions – because according to some data, Maksym Krippa hasn’t been seen in Ukraine since 2019, while other data suggest since 2015, after his unsuccessful episode with trading «Samopomich» mandates.

He allegedly resides in Dubai, but even this is not certain. There is only one reliable photograph of Maksym Krippa, which also raises questions. Questions are raised about who organizes all the fake auctions where Krippa’s firms get the opportunity to buy state property at obviously bargain prices. It is unclear who stands behind his persona – is it still Oseevsky and Malofeev, or are there now more significant figures. Finally, it is unclear why in Ukraine no one questions the origin of the clearly shady «stooge’s» capital, which appeared out of nowhere in the local business world. As you can see, there are more questions than answers.