{"id":9702,"date":"2024-07-18T19:11:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T18:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/?p=9702"},"modified":"2024-07-24T23:26:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T22:26:01","slug":"zelenskys-wife-did-not-place-an-order-for-a-4-5-million-euro-bugatti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/2024\/07\/18\/zelenskys-wife-did-not-place-an-order-for-a-4-5-million-euro-bugatti\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky&#8217;s Wife Did Not Place an Order for a 4.5 Million Euro Bugatti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/faktoje.al\/bashkeshortja-e-zelenskit-nuk-porositi-bugattin-4-5-milione-euro\/\" title=\"\">Original article<\/a>\u00a0(in Albanian) was published on 3\/7\/2024; Author: Pustina Patris<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Claim: The wife of the Ukrainian president, Olena Zelensky, bought a car worth 4.5 million euros.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On social media, including Albanian-speaking platforms, there is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jorgo.mandili\/posts\/pfbid02C3FC6njvGcxERjf75oZYNKmxWTwccp5DigdbSh2crexdeqykZnfS267vE59SDovTl\">rumor<\/a> circulating that the wife of the President of Ukraine has acquired a Bugatti Tourbillon, one of the world&#8217;s most expensive cars, valued at 4.5 million euros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This story appears to originate from a newly launched French-language portal, La Verite Cachee just a month ago. <a href=\"https:\/\/veritecachee.fr\/2024\/07\/01\/olena-zelenska-est-devenue-la-premiere-proprietaire-de-la-toute-nouvelle-bugatti-turbillon\/?swcfpc=1\">The article<\/a> mentions an alleged invoice and a purported employee from the Bugatti dealership in Paris, who posted a video on social media claiming that Zelenska had ordered the vehicle during the couple&#8217;s visit to Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, both the video and the claimed employee are not authentic. The video was created using deepfake technology, evident from sudden cuts, peculiar emphasis, and unnatural mouth and lip movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, Bugatti issued<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bugatti_paris\/p\/C86tVZWKjLS\/?img_index=1\"> a press release<\/a> on July 2 to refute<em> &#8216;this misinformation campaign.&#8217; <\/em>The company explicitly denied<em> &#8216;the existence of the transaction and, consequently, the existence of the invoice.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"826\" height=\"610\" src=\"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/unnamed.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/unnamed.png 826w, https:\/\/seecheck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/unnamed-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/seecheck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/unnamed-768x567.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 826px) 100vw, 826px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bugatti has lodged a criminal complaint for <em>&#8216;forgery, use of forged documents, identity theft, and defamation,&#8217; <\/em>according to their statement, and the company has initiated legal actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original article\u00a0(in Albanian) was published on 3\/7\/2024; Author: Pustina Patris Claim: The wife of the Ukrainian president, Olena Zelensky, bought a car worth 4.5 million euros. Verdict: False On social media, including Albanian-speaking platforms, there is a rumor circulating that the wife of the President of Ukraine has acquired a Bugatti Tourbillon, one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":9736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[36,448,447,10,66],"class_list":["post-9702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fact-checks","tag-albania","tag-bugatti","tag-olena-zelensky","tag-politics","tag-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9705,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9702\/revisions\/9705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}