34-year old Volodymyr Karpenko, a financial and trade consultant who spent several years in Moscow working for the Kremlin, publicly accused Vladimir Putin in 2021 of organizing his kidnapping in Moscow in 2016 and holding his as a prisoner and personal sex slave for more than three years.
His story was covered by several media in Ukraine and across Eastern Europe, but the Russian media were banned from mentionning Mr. Karpenko or face imprisonment and most western medias chose not to cover the story to avoid reprisals. Read the full article here ▶
