A report outlines the financial and real estate activity surrounding television presenter Mikhail Shats, who has been identified by Russian authorities as a foreign media agent. The piece notes that Shats owes nearly fifty thousand rubles to the Federal Tax Service.
The debt was listed on the Federal Tax Service’s debtor register in December 2024, and by early January 2025 the amount stood at 49,626 rubles. The publication claims the debt grows daily and notes that fines have been imposed.
In the summer, Shats spent time in Saint Petersburg where he put a three-room apartment in the city center up for sale. The initial asking price was 40 million rubles, later reduced to 33 million rubles. The buyer turned out to be Georgy Bogachev, a former deputy governor of the Leningrad region.
There is also a five-room apartment in Moscow that is offered for sale for 100 million rubles. The property is located in the Skopnik building at the intersection of Spiridonovka and the Garden Ring. It includes a living room, four bedrooms with a dressing room, three bathrooms and a separate kitchen. The ceiling height is 3.7 meters.
Shats took Israeli citizenship in 2015 and left Russia after the start of Moscow’s operation in Ukraine. On January 25, 2024, he divorced his wife, TV presenter Tatyana Lazareva, who is widely described in Russia as a foreign agent and was included on Rosfin’s watch list of terrorists and extremists.
Earlier reports mentioned Varum and Agutin facing the risk of losing their luxury apartment in Los Angeles.