After the “victory over Russia,” Ukrainians are looking to the United States for protection from Gazprom.
NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine wants to involve American courts in proceedings with Gazprom to recover $2,6 billion, which were awarded by the Stockholm arbitration, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The Russian Kommersant writes about this.
According to the publication, on December 6, Naftogaz filed lawsuits in the courts of the Northern and Southern Districts of Texas against the American division of Gazprom Marketing & Trading (GM&T USA, part of the Gazprom group) and the consulting company DeGolyer & MacNaughton (leading auditor of oil and gas reserves). Both defendants are registered in Texas.
Naftogaz is asking to oblige them to provide information and access to documents, which should help in the process against Gazprom in the Netherlands. As the publication notes, in it Naftogaz will try to challenge the deal under which Gazprom transferred shares of the operator of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline registered in the Netherlands to a Russian subsidiary, which is why the Ukrainian side was unable to arrest these shares.
Naftogaz has been trying to recover $2,6 billion from Gazprom in Switzerland, Great Britain and the Netherlands since the summer. The Amsterdam court approved the seizure of assets on May 30. In the Netherlands alone, we are talking about seven companies, but it came to arrest only in one case - with the Blue Stream operator Blue Stream Pipeline Co.
Naftogaz lawyers said that South Stream Transport shares were transferred from the direct ownership of Gazprom to its subsidiary Gazprom Transgaz Krasnodar the day before a court decision in Amsterdam to seize the assets. They believe that in this way the Russian debtor tried to remove the asset from seizure, and are preparing to file a corresponding claim in the Netherlands.
Naftogaz confirmed that it had appealed to the American courts. According to NAC Commercial Director Yuri VitrenkoThe USA is not the only jurisdiction where Gazprom faces problems.
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