00:00Зеленский has once again been hit with false property empire allegations.
00:06A so-called news report is circulating online alleging that Ukraine's President Volodymyr
00:12Зеленский is the owner of a $1.2 billion real estate empire. The video alleges that a former
00:18investigator at Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau, known as Olena K, defected to Europe with
00:25thousands of pages of internal files that supposedly show systemic corruption at the highest echelons
00:31of the government in Kyiv. She allegedly oversaw a task force tracking offshore wealth transfers
00:37and shell companies tied to Zelenskiy and his allies, which were used to buy more than 100
00:43luxury properties abroad for the president and his family. On paper, Zelenskiy owns nothing.
00:48In reality, he owns everything, the video claims. However, there's absolutely no evidence that any
00:53of this is true, with the video appearing dubious at best. The voiceover on the video is clearly
00:59AI and robotic, hinting at its lack of legitimacy. Many posts on X sharing it also link to its
01:05apparent source, a website called the London Telegraph, which seems to conflate the names
01:10of real news outlets like the Daily Telegraph and the London Evening Standard to feign legitimacy.
01:16Euroverify was unable to access the page of the journalist who supposedly wrote the story,
01:21but other fact-checkers said her photo was stolen from a legitimate journalist unaffiliated with
01:26the website. There's no reputable reporting on Olena Kaye or a defecting NABU agent,
01:31and no evidence of the file supposedly detailing Zelenskiy's transactions anywhere.
01:37Both Zelenskiy and his wife Olena Zelenska have previously been the targets of allegations that they
01:42own a vast property portfolio or spend aid money for Ukraine on luxury goods, but they have all proven
01:49to be bogus reports that attempt to destabilise support for Ukraine against Russia's war.
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