Larisa Moskalenko


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.
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. She stated in a pre-trial hearing, "I thought it was all legal, in fact I thought it was a humanitarian action."