The inside story of the faked murder that fooled the world

“He told me that there was a hit list, and that there were people willing to finance it being carried out.”

And what did you say?

“I agreed of course… If you refuse a request like this you probably end up dead.”

The broad-smiling, blond-bearded, would-be killer – Oleksiy Tsymbaliuk – is sitting next to me in