The pair regula­rly carry out prank calls that dupe the rich and the powerf­ulMOSCOW: “Hello, Mr President?” Two Russian pranksters famous for pulling off high-profile hoax phone calls say they tricked France’s Emmanuel Macron by pretending to be Ukraine’s new president elect. The pair, Vladimir “Vovan” Kuznetsov and Alexei “Lexus” Stolyarov, regularly carry out prank calls that dupe the rich and the powerful. “Seventy three per cent of Ukrainians, it’s just incredible… I feel like (Russian President Vladimir) Putin who got the same score,” he joked, as the taped conversation carried on in Russian and French with the help of translators. You have not yet put all your opponents in jail,” says the person the two pranksters say is President Macron. Contact has been well established between the president of the republic (Macron) and his Ukranian counterpart,” it added.

Source: The Express Tribune April 25, 2019 09:04 UTC