Amn OnlyFans porn star who was allegedly spying for Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko’s KGB secret service has been arrested.
Daria Ostapenko, 36, a vet by profession who was also an active OnlyFans model, has been detained in Poland where she is suspected of collaborating with Lukashenko’s secret service for up to seven years.
She is accused of posing as a pro-democracy opposition activist seeking to overthrow allegedly vote-rigging Lukashenko, while in fact informing the feared KGB on democracy campaigners who have fled abroad – including to Poland.
Lukashenko is Vladimir Putin’s closest ally, and the Minsk autocrat’s basket-case economy and defence is entirely dependent on the Kremlin.
Part of Ostapenko’s cover was to work as a model, receiving money from subscribers for online pornography, it is alleged.
Daria Ostapenko (pictured), 36, a vet by profession who was also an active OnlyFans model, has been detained in Poland where she is suspected of collaborating with Lukashenko’s secret service for up to seven years
Part of Ostapenko’s cover was to work as a model, receiving money from subscribers for online pornography, it is alleged
She is accused of posing as a pro-democracy opposition activist seeking to overthrow allegedly vote-rigging Lukashenko (pictured), while in fact informing the feared KGB on democracy campaigners who have fled abroad – including to Poland
Earlier she had reportedly worked as a hardcore porn star with the nickname Rita Martin.
As an alleged opposition activist with the Belarusian diaspora in Poland ‘she talked about the need to act more decisively to overthrow the government in Belarus, namely by force’, reported opposition news outlet Zerkalo.
‘She suggested collecting weapons, breaking into Belarus and setting up an explosion on the Belarusian border.’
But after a drinking session she spoke about her actual role in Poland – reporting back to Lukashenko’s feared KGB, which routinely tortures the dictator’s enemies.
‘Information about her was transferred to the Polish Internal Security Agency, and she was detained on the same day,’ reported the news outlet.
Sources say evidence of her links to the KGB was found on her smartphone. She is currently remanded in custody.
Reports say the adult actress is charged under Poland’s espionage laws which permit penalties of between five and 30 years in prison.
‘Ostapenko’s chosen profession made her extremely vulnerable to recruitment because Belarusian authorities could catch her breaking Belarus’ extremely strict prostitution and pornography laws,’ said Polish news outlet Onet.
‘Sources report that Ostapenko may have started cooperating with the KGB as early as 2017.’
Once she posed as an opposition activist at a polling station where dictator Lukashenko went to vote.
As an alleged opposition activist with the Belarusian diaspora in Poland ‘she talked about the need to act more decisively to overthrow the government in Belarus, namely by force’, reported opposition news outlet Zerkalo
Lukashenko is Vladimir Putin’s closest ally, and the Minsk autocrat’s basket-case economy and defence is entirely dependent on the Kremlin (pictured: Lukashenko and Putin)
‘The [alleged] spy’s career collapsed because of her own mistake,’ reported the outlet. ‘Ostapenko, while drunk, revealed to her friends that she was working for the Belarusian security services.
‘On the same day, the Polish authorities arrested Ostapenko. On her phone, the Internal Security Agency found evidence of communication with Belarusian intelligence officers.’
Lukashenko has been accused to have won the 2020 presidential election fraudulently.
The real victor is seen as pro-Western Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, 41, who stood in the election after her husband Syarhei Tsikhanouski, 45, was jailed by Lukashenko and prevented from standing. She is now in exile.
Many pro-democracy campaigners remain locked up.