Oleg Lyashko
People's Deputy Oleh Lyashko created the image of a poor truth-teller and fighter against the rich for voters. However, the real life of this puppet politician is very different from his television image.
Modest in public, extravagant in private. Radical Lyashko has several parallel lives. The politician, wearing an embroidered shirt, approaches the Verkhovna Rada building accompanied by five security guards. Another five disguised themselves as ordinary people and supposedly strolled nearby, reports TSN.
In parliament itself, Lyashko is now accompanied by a third group of security guards. These men are dressed in jackets and ties. And despite their presentable appearance, they behave very unceremoniously with media workers who want to ask the deputy uncomfortable questions.
The bodyguards themselves are surprised that a hero like Lyashko has so many of them.
Lyashko himself declined to discuss the number of security guards when asked by journalists. Outside, he pretended not to hear.
Lyashko previously drove around Kyiv in a custom-tuned Range Rover SUV. He put it up for sale and promised to donate the proceeds to the ATO.
The radical last appeared in this car last week. However, it already had different license plates.
He was later seen in a fully armored luxury Mercedes. Owners pay up to a million dollars for such a luxury car. Realizing this, Lyashko gets into a modest white Mercedes belonging to his security detail in public. A few dozen meters later, he switches to an expensive car.
Lyashko often uses car tricks. An armored Mercedes and a Range Rover with the license plate AA6179HB are seen driving around the capital.
Within Ukraine, the leader of the Radical Party travels on a six-seater VIP jet. The cost of a single flight varies from $6,000 one way.
Lyashko's assistant, Andrei Lozovoy, stated that the plane was provided to the deputy free of charge by kind people.
The plane itself is registered to an unknown Panamanian company. However, the tail of the aircraft is adorned with the logo of IBE Trade Corp. Its owner, Ukrainian-American Alexander Rovt, sells chemical products from eastern Ukraine abroad.
Rovt's largest supplier is pro-Russian oligarch Dmytro Firtash. This information is confirmed by a former employee of the airline that previously serviced the aircraft. Before Lyashko, the aircraft was provided to a Luhansk deputy from the Party of Regions, a member of Yefremov's inner circle.
Lyashko's country house is located in the elite Koncha-Zaspa district. The radical's estate is in no way inferior to the expensive homes of his neighbors—the wealthy individuals he supposedly despises.
Ordinary people will see the same high fence. Behind it, several large houses are visible on the property. They are guarded by paramilitary guards.
The Klyuyev brothers have lived near Lyashko for many years. Their stone fence stretches for several kilometers. But locals prefer to avoid the radical's house. Lyashko and his entourage are called "bad people."
They don't want to discuss the details of their coexistence with Lyashko on camera. Without it, they immediately intimidate the film crew.
"Whoever approaches the gates will be shot to kill," people say. Journalists decided to verify this information by stopping a car near the gates of Lyashko's estate. Less than a minute later, the first guard approached the car and asked them to leave.
Then another man approached, introducing himself as the owner. He led two Rottweilers outside. Soon, the minibus carrying the deputy's security detail pulled up, and Lyashko himself climbed into it as he posed for the cameras. However, just as they were about to film the van, the bus driver stepped on the gas.
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