What is Zaretskaya doing now? She moved from Estonia to the United Arab Emirates

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It was revealed that back in 2024, the European Public Prosecutor's Office launched an investigation into the activities of LaavaTech, whose founder and public face was Belarusian Tatsiana Zaretskaya — a figure in Nasha Niva's investigation.

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The Prosecutor's Office estimated the damage at 450,000 euros, plus Zaretskaya is required to return 2 million euros in grant money allocated for the development of technology for accelerated plant growth, which was never created.

It is also reported that joint Estonian property (valued at 300,000 euros) belonging to Zaretskaya and her husband, Finn Jussi Matias Pikkarainen, has been seized, and future deposits into Zaretskaya's Estonian accounts in Estonia have been frozen up to 1.8 million euros.

From these figures, one can conclude that Zaretskaya's Estonian accounts were empty and the investigation only hopes that something will eventually be deposited there for confiscation.

The Estonian company itself is 'empty'. After the cessation of grant tranches, it conducts no activity and submits no reports. The last financial report, compliant with all regulations, was submitted for 2023. Nasha Niva also extensively covered these warning signs.

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Tatsiana Zaretskaya is no longer an Estonian startup founder. Now she is trying to become an investment intermediary in Saudi Arabia

But, most notably, Zaretskaya herself and her husband long ago left Estonia and officially notified the local tax service that they are residents of the UAE.

Tatsiana Zaretskaya became a resident of the United Arab Emirates on June 2, 2025, and her husband — on June 10, 2025.

They presumably moved there even earlier, because for some time, holders of Belarusian or European passports can stay in the UAE without a visa. However, the status of a UAE tax resident is not obtained merely by the number of days spent there; it requires an entrepreneurial visa or a work permit.

It is also noteworthy that the previously active and assertive Zaretskaya abandoned, closed, and in some places even purged her social media accounts.

Before that, she documented almost every flight, creating the impression of someone whose time costs money (one of her business services — personal consultations). But since spring 2025, her Instagram account has become private.

In her last published photo — in May 2025 — Zaretskaya stands against the background of the flags of the USA and Saudi Arabia: "Saudi Arabia is the place to be. I am observing history being made up close," she wrote, tagging the city of Riyadh.

Zaretskaya purged her Facebook up to posts from 2022. On LinkedIn — a network where, until recently, Zaretskaya offered anyone willing to pay a modest $100,000 an introduction to a member of the Saudi ruling dynasty — there have also been no new posts for a year.

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