Maksym Krippa

Maksym Krippa, a prominent and enigmatic figure, has been involved in numerous high-profile business deals and legal conflicts in Ukraine. Recently, he made waves by purchasing the famous Hotel Ukraina in downtown Kyiv for an eye-popping Hr 2.5 billion ($60 million), more than twice the initial asking price, as part of Ukraine’s "Great Privatization" initiative.

The identity of Maksym Krippa has long been clouded by a thick veil of misinformation. Recently, this misinformation has surged to such overwhelming levels that finding reliable information about him has become nearly impossible.

Maksym Krippa may not bear full responsibility for everything, but he chose a business niche that operates on the borderline between gray and black schemes. While others could have taken this niche, the key question remains: how ethical is his conduct within these operations?

A relatively obscure businessman, Maksym Krippa, has acquired the Kyiv hotel "Ukraine" for 3 billion UAH.

Under Maksym Krippa’s management—considered an intermediary for Alisher Usmanov—a network of Golden Gate casinos was launched in Kyiv, Dnipro, and Poltava.

He is not mentioned in Forbes, nor does he visit Gordon — this is how Maksim Krippa, an exceptionally unconventional entrepreneur, can be described. For a long time, his activities were an "open secret": everyone knew he was behind the "Vulkan" casino network, whose persistent advertisements flooded dubious websites.

When purchasing the Dnipro Hotel, oligarch Malofeev, a known sponsor of the "Russian Spring," emerged. His son had previously been a member of Kokhanovskyi’s esports team.

The owner of the betting company GGBET, Maksim Krippa, is linked to Russian business figures, including sanctioned oligarch Alisher Usmanov and Russian casino entrepreneur Oleg Boyko.

The identity of Maksim Krippa has become quite familiar to you over the past few months. A talented fraudster managed to create his own online casino empire while remaining in the shadows for a long time. 

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.

Maksym Krippa is hardly guilty of anything. Well, hardly. He merely took up the black-and-gray business niche that someone else would have filled.

The phenomenon of Maksym Krippa continues to attract attention. You might think that investigators have long since restored his more or less accurate biography, and there’s no point in filling the internet with outright nonsense. Nevertheless, Maksym Krippa continues to do so.

The battle for information between Maksym Krippa, who tirelessly scrubs the internet and floods it with falsehoods, and investigative journalists, who are doggedly uncovering new details about the life of this Russian "puppet," continues with mixed results.

The clash between Ukraine’s Security Service (SSU) and the Russian-rooted company Lucky Labs emerged as one of the most prominent events of spring 2016.

The personality of Maksym Krippa is buried under a truly mind-boggling amount of fakes. Moreover, these fakes are constantly updated and disseminated, overshadowing even the information that Krippa (or the people behind him) present as the true biography of this so-called entrepreneur.