Is it true that Zelensky bought the French bank Milleis?

In early March 2025, the media and Telegram channels reported that the offshore company associated with the President of Ukraine acquired one of the largest French banks. We checked the authenticity of this information.

In viral publications, citing the French media reported that in early February 2025, one of the largest private investment banks in France Milleis Banques was sold to Maltex Multicapital Corp from the British Virgin Islands, which was mentioned in the Pandora archive as close to Vladimir Zelensky. The transaction amount amounted to € 1.1 billion, and the mediator allegedly performed Rothschild & Co, where French President Emmanuel Macron worked from 2008 to 2012.

As confirmation of the media and Telegram channels give an almost three-minute reporting of French television, which outlines the above facts. Also in the publications they appeared screenshots with this news, allegedly made on the websites of the Western media.

The fact that Zelensky acquired a bank in France reported Life, "Moscow Komsomolets" URA.RU, "Moscow 24","Sight" REGNUM, Pravda.ru And News.ruas well as Telegram channels "Sanya in Florida"(511,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Observer"(179 000),"Putin in Telegram"(140 000), Voblya (136,000), "Sheikh Tamir"(118 000) and others.

In 2021 from the so -called "Archive of Pandora" - leaks of millions of documents of providers of offshore services - it became known that Vladimir Zelensky had a share in Maltex Multicapital Corp., registered in the British Virgin Islands. After his victory in the election of the President of Ukraine in 2019, he transferred this share to his longtime business partner Sergey Shefir. The President of Ukraine and his wife belonged to a quarter of this company, which OCCRP journalists call the key in the network of associated offshores. Representatives of Zelensky did not comment on this information.

“Verified” did not find reports on the transaction with the participation of Maltex offshore and the French bank in authoritative French or Ukrainian media Milleis. Its General Director Nicolas Yuber at the end of February gave an interview to the newspaper Le Figaro And he did not mention the sale of a financial organization, although the transaction, according to viral posts, was already issued by that time. In addition, by French laws Bank's sale was supposed to be registered in Official Bulletin of Civil and Commercial Transactions (Bodacc)but there is no this information there. Mention of the change of owner could also appear in Bulletin of mandatory legal ads (Balo)However, in this register, “verified” such records did not find.

In some sources, the viral news is accompanied by screenshots of notes in the English -speaking media. However, publications that are not related to the alleged purchase of the French bank are captured on some of them. So, in screenshots from the British website Daily Mail and American New York Post Zelensky with reference to unnamed sources in the White House advise "to leave for France." In another picture of the screen, you can see an article about the Milleis transaction. Its design is similar to publication in a British publication The IndependentHowever, there is no similar news on the newspaper website.

However, the main evidence for the media and Telegram channels was a report, which, judging by the logo, was taken by the TV12 channel near one of Parisian is separatedIy Milleis Bank. But in France there is no such television channel with such a logo.

Persons recognition service Pimeyes He identified in a man of a man named Guillaume Le Oan.

In his resume on Linkedin Work on any television channel is not listed, although the profile owner reports, among other things, his journalistic education. There are on the network interview With the participation of Le Oan dated January 18, 2025, but there he acts as an interviewee - talks about the significance of corn in the agriculture of France. At the same time, a short -haired man would not have time to grow such a magnificent hair in a month and a half.

A journalist from a viral video is a public person, and dozens of his portraits that would recognize a service like Pimeyes should be available on the Internet. It can be assumed that when creating a fake report, a neural network was used, which also used the pictures of Le Oan or a person similar to him.

There are other oddities in the video. So, at the 17th second of the report in the interruption between its two parts, a fragment of an audio road from the screensaver is used BBC (Not a single solid media would not be borrowed directly). An explanation of the essence of the alleged transaction, which occupies most of the video, occurs against the background, which is published in the public domain YouTube.

Facts from the project Lead Stories analyzed audio tracks from reporting using services Invid And Deepfake-O-Meter. Both showed that the record with a high degree of probability was generated by a neural network.

Alexandra Tvedjre, Milleis external communications manager, in response to a request “verified” about the commentary, said: “Milleis Banque Privée became known about false information distributed in some social networks. We officially reject these accusations. Since 2017, Milleis Banque Privée belongs to the company Anacap. We reserve the right to take any actions that are considered necessary. ”

The earliest Russian-speaking publication, which contained a fake report and which managed to find “verified”, appeared on March 6 at 13:52 Moscow time in the Telegram channel “Mordor's voice". A fake screenshot about the transaction was placed there. "The voice of Mordor" has repeatedly Facing In the analysis of "tested" as the source of misinformation. At the same time, the report on the night of March 5 to 6 became a viral in the English -language segment of the social network X - one such tweet Collected 6.5 million views.

Not the first time, this is not the first time that the closest relatives, his closest relatives, his closest relatives and his companies after the start of a full -scale war in Ukraine appear in Ukraine. "Verified" already disassembled such reports about transactions with British Britain, villas in the USA, Egypt And On the Caribbean, Winge Sting in Italy, hotel in Courchevel etc. If you believe the same sources, the Ukrainian president has a special weakness for the legacy of the Third Reich - he allegedly acquired Goebbels estate, and also Mountain house And Hitler's car. All this news turned out to be fakes, and the handwriting of their creators in many cases was the same: “revealing” photos, audio or video materials were “legalized” under the guise of investigations of foreign journalists. Subsequently, it turned out that these evidence were falsified.

Thus, the news that Zelensky offshore spent more than € 1 billion on the purchase of a French bank has all signs of misinformation. The report used as evidence was equipped with the logo of the non -existent French television channel and was highly likely (at least partially) created using neural networks. The screenshot of another publication was falsified, and the fact of the transaction was refuted by representatives of the allegedly sold bank.

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