In August 2024, Russian media and Telegram channels reported that the company connected with the President of Ukraine acquired an expensive real estate object in Tuscan from the British singer. We checked the reliability of this information.
As stated with reference to the publication Database Italia, the British singer Sting sold the Tenuta del Palagio Wines winery in Tuscan. The value of the transaction held in June is estimated at about € 75 million, and the Italian company San Tommaso S.R.L. was the new owner of the facility. This company indicated In the Declaration of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky with a note that her final beneficiary is the first lady Elena Zelenskaya. Database Italia notes that the Tuscan winery changed the owner on June 28 - two weeks after the Zelensky’s visit to the G7 summit, held in Italy.
This news was distributed by the leading Russian media: "Channel One" RBC, "Gazeta.ru","Arguments and facts" RT, Lenta.ru, "Russian newspaper" And Life. She became popular in Telegram, including thanks to the channels "Sanya in Florida"(447,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Russia now"(191 000),"Uncle Glory"(185,000),"Mordor's voice"(181 000) and"Zlaya Prof"(181 000).
August 5 on the Database Italia website really appeared article About the deal with the participation of singer Gordon Sumner, known under the pseudonym Sting. The material contains screenshots of the cadastral document confirming that the British artist sold his winery Tenuta Il Palagio in the Tuscan region. If you believe this document dated July 24, 2024, the winery allegedly changed the owner on June 28.
The new owner is San Tommaso S.R.L. Zelensky Indicates her in declarations throughout her presidency. Shortly before the 2019 elections, reporters' journalists discoveredthat the future head of state did not mention the Villa in a similar document in the Tuscan city of Forte-de-Marie, which was previously acquired by this company. In the election headquarters of Zelensky then They saidthat by law the candidate is obliged to declare his companies, but not their property. Subsequently, the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption conducted against the president check on the legality of enrichment and a possible conflict of interests, but did not record any violations. In 2022, Italian media They wrotethat Villa still belongs to the Zelensky family.
According to open sources, the Villa il Palagio estate, together with the Tenuta Il Palagio winery, has been owned by Sting and his wife, actress Trudi Stayler since 1997. The winery is located about 100 hectares of land, a quarter of which are occupied by vineyards.
The names of the owners are also indicated in the regularly updated winery blog in Instagram. For example, July 27 was placed there video With Sting and his wife who visited the estate. Although, according to the document from the article by Database Italia, it has not belonged to the family of a British singer for a month.
"Verified" contacted with manager For sales of the winery Tenuta il Palagio Tony Sasya. He said that in recent days many partners have addressed him with questions about the publication of Database Italia, but called it “complete nonsense” and “misinformation”.
Also one of Pikabu users Published The screenshot of a similar extract that he ordered on August 8 (anyone can do this for a small fee). According to this image, the owners of the wineries in 2024 did not change. Similar document Received Facts from the project Lead Stories.
Database Italia - a site registered in July 2020 and almost immediately acquired Fame Thanks to his publication about Qanon. According to this conspiracy theory, ex-president of the United States Donald Trump performs a secret mission to get rid of peace from the elite of the deep state (Deep State)-the Clinton clan, Bill Gates, George Soros and other politicians and businessmen who allegedly controlling the global network of pedophiles and criminals. In the future, publications on this topic continued appear on the site. At the end of 2020, the Newsguard project Turned on Database Italia in the list of main resources that distribute misinformation in Italy.
Initially, the publication about Zelensky appeared on the Italian language Database.it for some reason in English. Then this version was removed, but it remained in Archive. Perhaps the site owners decided that a foreign language could cause unnecessary suspicions about the origin of the article. Nevertheless, the accompanying video, which contains the same information, remains in English.
In recent months, materials with enviable constancy have appeared on the purchase of Zelensky or his relatives of expensive objects of movable and immovable property in different parts of the world. "Checked" already Disassembled Similar messages On transactions with mansions in the USA and Great Britain, Villa in Egypt, Goebbels's estate in Germany, Cyprus casino, Italian yachts and a French car. All this news turned out to be fakes, and the handwriting in many cases was the same: either on the new site that supposedly belonged to the “authoritative media”, or on the old site, but with a dubious reputation, an article with “revealing” photo, audio or video materials appeared.
Photo on the cover: Database.it
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