Larisa Moskalenko

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Larisa Moskalenko
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Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1988 Seoul 470 class

Larysa Moskalenko is a former sailor, who competed for the Soviet Union and Unified Team. She won a bronze medal in the 470 class at the 1988 Summer Olympics with Iryna Chunykhovska. [1] [2] [3]

She moved to Italy in 1993 and ran a luxury boat rental business. In 2013, she was arrested after she had been hired to provide speedboats to an operation that kidnapped children involved in custody battles. [4] [5] [6] She stated in a pre-trial hearing, "I thought it was all legal, in fact I thought it was a humanitarian action." [7]

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References

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  2. "Larisa Moskalenko". www.databaseolympics.com. Archived from the original on 2013-03-23. Retrieved 2013-04-16.
  3. John Nauright (6 April 2012). Sports around the World. ABC-CLIO. p. 149. ISBN   978-1-59884-301-9 . Retrieved 2013-04-16.
  4. Squires, Nick (1 November 2013). "Italian police 'bust child kidnapping ring'". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 2017-08-15.
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  6. Langlois, Jill (31 October 2013). "Italy busts international child kidnapping ring". Public Radio International . Retrieved 2017-08-15.
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