The Block buyer Emese Abigail Fajk accused over Ukraine war rorts

An alleged ‘con woman’ who placed a $4m winning bid on The Block but failed to pay has been accused of stealing medical supplies intended for Ukraine.

Emese Abigail Fajk was last seen holding an assault rifle and conducting a press conference alongside foreign fighters in July.

An alleged “international con woman” who placed a $4m winning bid on a house on Nine Network’s The Block but failed to pay has been accused of stealing a multimillion-dollar shipment of medical supplies intended for Ukraine’s Foreign Legion.

Emese Abigail Fajk – who was last seen holding an assault rifle and conducting a press conference alongside foreign fighters in July – has been accused of a raft of offences within the Foreign Legion, including blackmail, misappropriation of donations and stealing a “massive shipment” of medical supplies valued up to $US2.5m.

In a confidential dossier sent to Ukrainian Ground Forces command and viewed by The Australian, a senior member of the Foreign Legion alleges Ms Fajk poses a serious “counterintelligence threat” to the international force, and has repeatedly threatened to leak top-secret information that would “be catastrophically bad geopolitically” if her position within the legion is undermined or challenged.

The Hungarian national, who is understood to hold the rank of private in the Ukrainian Army, made headlines in Australia in 2020 after she made the winning bid on a property at an auction on the TV show The Block.

It was later revealed that Ms Fajk, who goes by the alias “Mockingjay” in Ukraine, allegedly produced false bank transfers to the network, indicating the funds had been sent.

In the dossier sent to Ukrainian Ground Forces command last month, a senior medical and intelligence officer in the Foreign Legion alleges that the 30-year-old committed several “financial crimes” while in her position as “communications director and troop support for 1st Battalion”.

The Block winners Jimmy and Tam Wilkins with Emese Fajk. Picture: Nine entertainment

“The author of this report is aware of a massive shipment of medication delivered by one of his assets to Kyiv for distribution to the 1st and 3rd Battalion,” wrote the senior officer, who spoke to The Australian on the condition of anonymity.

“I have the EUC (end use certificate) for the delivery of these medications whose estimated value is nearly US $2,500,000.

“I have confirmed that none of this medication was ever delivered to the 1st or 3rd Battalions and have made con­siderable efforts to locate where the medication may have gone … I am willing to testify that Mockingjay was present during the delivery.”

The officer, who cited testimony from several witnesses and senior members of the ­Foreign Legion, further alleged that “large amounts of additional donations” made to the international military unit were “confiscated by Mockingjay and sent to places ­unknown”.

“In every aspect of her job, she has proven to be an abject failure. She does not have the confidence of the rank and file of the soldiers, the local or international press or even those who work directly with her,” the dossier concluded.

“It is a nearly unanimously held belief within the Legion that she is a cancer on the organisation that must be excised lest she destroy the entire body of the organisation itself.”

In another dossier, a second intelligence officer wrote Ms Fajk’s “illicit behaviours” made her “extremely susceptible to blackmail, bribery, extortion and/or open recruitment by officers of the Russian Federation Security Services”.

A senior member of the Foreign Legion alleges Emese Fajk poses a serious “counterintelligence threat” to the international force. Picture: Facebook

It further claims she was arrested by Ukrainian military authorities last March in Yavoriv “on suspicion of espionage” but was “inexplicably released”.

The two dossiers, which were independently written without instruction from Ukrainian Ground Forces command or the Foreign Legion, were subsequently forwarded to the US Embassy in Kyiv and called for the immediate termination of Ms Fajk’s role.

The Australian does not suggest Ms Fajk is guilty of these allegations, only that they have been raised by several senior members of the Foreign Legion.

Ms Fajk, who previously lived in New York and the UK, relocated to Australia in 2019.

While her LinkedIn profile states she has worked as a “senior consultant” for the UN since 2015, in December 2020 she told The Australian she was not an employee of the UN.

In July 2022, Nine’s A Current Affair program reported Ms Fajk supplied a fake ANZ banking receipt after she placed multiple bids on a property featured on The Block, ultimately winning the auction for $4,256,000.

But Nine did not receive the funds from Ms Fajk and the ­contract of sale was voided by the network, which subsequently handed all its evidence to law-enforcement authorities.

An AFP spokesman said it was not currently investigating Ms Fajk.

The Australian sought comment from Ms Fajk.