The founder and general producer of the League of Laughter and a longtime ally of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, TV producer Naum Barulia has the citizenship of the aggressor country and has a business in Russian-occupied Crimea. This is the evidence of according to an investigation by journalists of the Schemes project, UNN reports .
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Judging by the journalists' investigation, Naum Barulia has Russian citizenship, which he has never renounced during the 10 years of war. He also has a current Russian taxpayer identification number.
Journalists of the "Radio Liberty" from the "Schemes" project found documents confirming that the famous producer Barulya traveled to Crimea after the occupation of the peninsula by Russians until 2019 inclusive, using a Russian passport.
The "schemes" also also managed to establish that the Russian migration service issued Naum Baruli a Russian passport in April 2009, when he was 49 years old. At that time, Barula lived in Moscow and working as the general director of Alexander Maslyakov's AMIK company, which which organizes KVN.
The presence of of the Russian passport was also confirmed by journalists using official registers of the Russian Federation and leaks from state databases of different periods.
Real estate in Crimea
Accordingly the investigation also revealed that Naum Barulia re-registered all his property and business in Crimea all his property and business in Crimea under the laws of the occupiers. Moreover, after the the annexation of the peninsula by the Russians, Barulia purchased new real estate there, totaling totaling 60 million rubles.
In particular, in the city of Sudak, Zelenskyy's longtime creative associate has three apartments with a total area of 312 square meters. According to Skhemy, this property Barul voluntarily re-registered this property under Russian law in January 2016. in January 2016. However, he did not do it personally. He issued a notarized power of attorney and gave his lawyer the authority to carry out all the necessary procedures for the registration of property issues on the Russian-occupied peninsula.
Earning money in Ukraine by producing TV projects, Naum Barulia continued to buy new property there as a citizen of Russia after the annexation of the peninsula. new property there as a Russian citizen, according to the laws of the occupiers. In 2017, he became the owner of a 7-hectare land plot, also in Sudak. A year later, in the same place he acquired another 6 acres and a seven-story building with an area of more than 2,000 square meters.
Business in Crimea
In addition to the property, journalists also found an operating business of a Ukrainian producer who still pays taxes to the occupiers' treasury.
As of December 2023, the founder of the League of Laughter remains the sole owner of the company "Profile-N", which was re-registered in Crimea after the annexation under the under the laws of the aggressor country.
"Profile-N" is a catering establishment on the central embankment of Sudak called called "Prokhlada". The cafe-restaurant is decorated in Soviet style. Until recently, namely until 2019, he owned this business together with his daughter, Iryna Borzova, who is now a member of the Verkhovna Rada from the Servant of the People party. It was after being elected to the parliament, Iryna Borzova transferred her share of the business in Crimea to her father.
However, Schemes managed to obtain a document indicating that at the end of 2014, after the occupation of Crimea after the occupation of Crimea and the illegal referendum, Naum Barulia and his and his daughter re-registered their company Profil-N in accordance with Russian law.
According to the Russian register Spark, the revenue of the aforementioned cafe in Sudak over the past five years amounted to more than 15 million rubles, of which half a million of which went to the occupiers' treasury as taxes.
Barula position .
Journalists of "Schemes" tried to ask producer Naum Barulia and his daughter Iryna Borzova directly about and his daughter Iryna Borzova about their assets in the occupied Crimea and the presence of a Russian passport. However, Barulia denied that he had registered property and companies in Crimea under the the laws of the occupiers. And he refused to talk about having a Russian passport at all. he refused to talk about his Russian passport at all.
Barulya also noted that after the occupation of the peninsula by Russians, he lost all his assets in Crimea.
In fact, there is nothing, I have lost everything. Everything I've been working on for 25 years every single day.
Baruli's daughter and current MP Iryna Borzova refused to comment on her father's business in Sudak business in Sudak and his Russian citizenship refused to comment.
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Naum Barulia is a Ukrainian television producer and longtime creative associate of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, with whom they co-founded the show "League of Laughter" and produced a number of well-known Ukrainian television series. Currently, Barulia is making sitcoms on the on the topic of war. Last year, one of his projects applied for state funding. funding.