00:00Zelenskyy 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
00:12Zelenskyy 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
00:25with thousands of pages of internal files that supposedly show systemic corruption at the
00:31highest echelons of the government in Kiev. She allegedly oversaw a task force tracking
00:36offshore wealth transfers and shell companies tied to Zelenskyy and his allies, which were used to
00:41buy more than 100 luxury properties abroad for the president and his family. On paper, Zelenskyy
00:47owns nothing. In reality, he owns everything, the video claims. However, there's absolutely no
00:52evidence that any of this is true, with the video appearing dubious at best. The voiceover
00:58on the video is clearly AI and robotic, hinting at its lack of legitimacy. Many posts on X
01:04sharing it also link to its apparent source, a website called the London Telegraph, which
01:09seems to conflate the names of real news outlets like the Daily Telegraph and the London Evening
01:14Standard to feign legitimacy. Euroverify was unable to access the page of the journalist who
01:19supposedly wrote the story, but other fact-checkers said her photo was stolen from a legitimate
01:24journalist, unaffiliated with the website. There's no reputable reporting on Olena K or
01:29a defecting NABU agent, and no evidence of the file supposedly detailing Zelenskyy's transactions
01:36anywhere. Both Zelenskyy and his wife, Olena Zelenska, have previously been the targets of allegations
01:42that they own a vast property portfolio or spend aid money for Ukraine on luxury goods. But
01:48they have all proven to be bogus reports that attempt to destabilise support for Ukraine against
01:53Russia's war.
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