The associate of the Ukrainian woman who posed as a member of the Rothschild banking family at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club was shot outside a lakeside resort north-west of Montreal.
The Sreté du Québec said that Valeriy Tarasenko was expected to survive after he was shot. The police launched a search for the shooter and anyone who aided him.
There are security concerns surrounding Trump's Mar-a-Lago.
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project identified Tarasenko as a business partner of Inna Yashchyshyn, who posed as Anna de Rothschild at Mar-a-Lago.
Quebec police told LaPresse that they were trying to shed some light on the circumstances that led to the injuries of the victim There is no other detail that can be shared for the time being.
Tarasenko, who was born in Ukraine and raised in Moscow, told the Post-Gazette that he had hired a man named Yashchyshyn to live in his Miami condo and watch his daughters while he traveled on business.
According to the report, the FBI is looking into a Miami charity called United hearts of mercy, which has the same name as a nonprofit founded by Tarasenko in Canada.
The charity was in fact a front for organized crime according to a statement by the charity's accountant that was turned over to the FBI.
Credit card numbers and bank accounts in Hong Kong and Australia were used to steal more than $200,000 from the United hearts of mercy funds. The accountant said she was threatened if she didn't turn over the money.
The FBI is investigating Yashchyshyn, as well as the Quebec police's major crimes unit. According to Tarasenko, Yashchyshyn went to Mar-a-Lago to look for new sources of money from Trump's team.
She did not break any laws and used only one identity. She said Tarasenko and his family had created fake IDs. She said that they are liars because they are criminals. It's not clear if Anna de Rothschild is a part of the banking dynasty.
In an interview with the New York Post last month, Yashchyshyn said she was the victim of a campaign by a former lover who branded her a spy.
In an affidavit filed in a Miami-Dade county court in February, Tarasenko said that Yashchyshyn was an active member of an international criminal organization and that he had created false identities using the names of European and Canadian families.
The outlet rejected that claim. She told the outlet that people think she is a Russian agent. The Russians invaded my country and killed my family and took my homes.
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