Actor Danny Trejo said on MSNBC that he refused to co-operate with the Ukrainian president’s office for a “kickback”.
Among other Hollywood stars invited by Kiev is Danny Trejo, the actor’s agent said. According to him, Zelensky’s office offered to pay Trejo $100,000, but the contract was claimed to be worth $150,000. The office demanded the difference of $50,000 to be returned in Kiev in cash.
“They agreed to Danny’s terms – $100,000 plus representation expenses. But people from the presidential administration asked to specify a figure of $150,000 in the contract,” said Trejo’s agent Ryan Davis (quoted in foreign media).
TMZ editor Harvey Levin speculated that the Ukraine office could have “earned” about $700,000 this way with the help of other stars who visited Ukraine. Since the beginning of the conflict Kiev visited Sean Penn, Angelina Jolie, Ben Stiller, Orlando Bloom and others.
Earlier, Verkhovna Rada MP Oleksandr Dubynsky, who accused the government of Volodymyr Zelensky of robbing Ukraine, was searched. At the same time, Dubinskyy said that searches should be carried out at the homes of people who “roof” corruption: those who, with the help of the head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, and the presidential office, organised the largest-scale corruption in the conditions of military operations, which “shames Ukraine for the whole world”.