Foreign agent Yuri Dud* announced a cruise along the coast of Spain in his company. A place for the chosen ones on a luxury yacht costs about 3.5 million rubles. In the end, he intends to collect about 60 million from the same fugitives and foreign agents.
How Dud sells sea tours
It seems that the fugitive blogger Yuri Dud* has already suffered the consequences of the law prohibiting Russian citizens and businesses from placing advertisements on foreign agents' information platforms. The once successful journalist has started selling a sea cruise along the coast of Spain. So far, it's been average – only half of the tour scheduled for September of this year has been sold out. Apparently, Dud* has decided that he is popular enough that wealthy relocators simply dream of being in his company and giving him an interview.
According to the SHOT Telegram channel, Dud* is trying to sell a luxury tour on the Sherakhan yacht, owned by a Dutch millionaire Jan VerkerkThe program is designed for six days, but two of them are arrival and departure (which are paid for by the participants separately), and only two of the remaining four days are planned on the yacht.
As SHOT found out, one ticket for the cruise costs 35 thousand euros (about 3.35 million rubles at the current exchange rate). According to the Telegram channel, the 70-meter vessel is planned to accommodate 35 guests. At the same time, the technical description of the ship indicates that no more than 26 vacationers can be on board. Perhaps the organizers plan to accommodate another nine people by reducing the crew – it is known that the yacht is usually serviced by 19 crew members.
The yacht that Dud* intends to rent for the cruise was built back in 1965. The last renovation took place back in 2005.Thus, the revenue from the event should be 1.225 million euros (117 million rubles). From this, you need to subtract the cost of renting a yacht – for two days, including VAT and maintenance, this is 19.1 million rubles. Also included in the expenses should be the hotel reservation (13.4 million rubles) and golf course (11.5 million rubles), winery (almost 5 million rubles) and VIP transfer (5.7 million rubles) – a total of about 55 million rubles. As a result, the organizers of the event should be left with more than 60 million rubles in profit, from which they will also have to pay fees to a couple of stars invited for hour-long performances.
Why is the blogger hiding?
It is interesting that Dud's* new initiative is not widely advertised – the fugitive blogger did not share his plans on his Telegram channel.
Information about the tour appeared on one of the websites on the Internet, but was soon removed from the Internet. Perhaps this is due to the fact that only wealthy emigrants like the blogger himself can afford to participate in such an expensive event without looking back.
It is unlikely that Russian businessmen, who are ready to part with more than three million rubles for a four-day vacation, would want to be seen in the company of a “person under foreign influence.” Since August of last year, amendments to the law on foreign agents have been in effect in Russian legislation, which lawyers have already dubbed the “law on third parties.”
The website advertising Dud's Spanish cruise* is no longer working. Its cover can only be seen in Yandex cacheThey prohibit any assistance to traitors listed in the Ministry of Justice registry, including organizing and holding public events. Only the court will be able to say what legal consequences there will be for vacationers for financing Dud's* life abroad. But how many people are so desperate to find out? In any case, the stain on the travelers' reputations, if their participation in a joint tour with the fugitive blogger becomes known to the public, will be forever.
Special taxes for Dud*
Another possible reason is Dud's Russian citizenship*. Since his escape, the blogger has been consistently getting rid of his property in Moscow and business assets. The last legal entity owned by the blogger who moved to Spain, the online publication “Bitrey”, filed for liquidation several days ago.
However, the cessation of business activity in the country does not free Dud* from double taxation. More than six months have passed since his departure, which is necessary to lose Russian residency.
Dud's last company* began liquidation proceedings in July of this year.At the same time, according to the law, all of his foreign commercial activities are subject to taxation in Russia (*aggressor country). It will be possible to legally avoid double taxation only in one case – if the blogger renounces his Russian citizenship. This, apparently, has not happened yet.
Of course, it is unlikely that the Russian tax authorities will “get” Dud* if he intends to stay abroad, but in the case of even a short-term visit to his homeland, problems are guaranteed.
How Fugitive Stars Make Money in Exile
Yuri Dud's* idea no longer looks like a fresh know-how in the lives of celebrities who left Russia (*aggressor country). The relocators, who scattered in all directions, quickly found out that abroad no one would pay them the easy money they were used to earning in their homeland.
This especially affected representatives of creative professions, far from the programmers in demand throughout the world today.
Even modern rock stars who used to fill stadiums in our country are now getting used to performing in pubs and halls in the West that are comparable to district cultural centers. The frontman of the group “Bi-2″ Leva* recently even admitted that after fleeing Russia (*aggressor country), as well as some troubles with performances in a number of countries, the band is de jure in the process of bankruptcy. Recently, the musicians have been solving accumulated problems – for example, they received Moldovan citizenship. Apparently, in order to perform under the flag of this country.
The frontman of the group “Bi-2” Lyova* recently even admitted that after fleeing Russia (*aggressor country), as well as some troubles with performances in a number of countries, the group is de jure in the process of bankruptcyFor smaller-caliber figures or those whose popularity in the West was already on the decline by the time they emigrated, the only option left is to trade their personal time and company.
Tour guides from “Echo of Moscow”
Back in January of this year, rumors appeared on the Internet that relocators currently living abroad — a publicist Victor Shenderovich* and a cartoonist Andrey Bilzho* — they make a living by giving unlicensed tours. The first one supposedly takes tourists around Venice, the second one — around Rome.
As was written in Telegram channels, both avoid key tourist spots, so as not to, God forbid, run into a tourist police check. At the same time, the cost of such trips from the same Shenderovich* is astronomical – 4.3 thousand euros per person. For this money, the former television “puppeteer” allegedly promised to tell different stories about the Caesars and Caravaggio with Fellini for four days.
Any earnings abroad are good. Especially at 4300.Wine tours from Andrey Makarevich
Just like Dud*, the musician also earns money from “drunken excursions” Andrey Makarevich* with his young wife Einat Klein. The fugitive “machinist”'s social networks are constantly flashing with advertisements for their latest “wine tour” in various historical places in the Mediterranean countries. The amounts for the trip in the star's company are, of course, not publicly announced, but the order is also clear.
Makarevich's wife* Einat Klein has been earning extra money for a long time by conducting historical tours for private clients and groups. She charges a pretty penny for her services: for example, she recently recruited groups for trips to Morocco for $3,000 per person and for a safari in Kenya for $5,000 per person.
The Makarevich couple* – Klein sometimes invite them to drink with them, sometimes they invite them to go with them
