Siemens will not be able to challenge the supply of turbines to Crimea in court
The scheme used by Rostec for supplying Siemens turbines to Crimea, intended for thermal power plants in Taman, leaves the German company little chance of challenging it in court, writes “Kommersant”, referring to the conclusions of lawyers.
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The publication writes that it has identified a scheme that allowed TPE LLC (part of Rostec) to claim that turbines for the Tavricheskaya and Balaklava thermal power plants in Crimea were purchased on the secondary market, while Siemens insists that the turbines were moved to Crimea against the will of the company. which initially sold them for installation at a station in Taman.
At the same time, Rostec and the government continue to insist on the Russian origin of the turbines, claiming, among other things, that the turbines were modernized in the Russian Federation.
According to the newspaper's source in Rostec, changes were made to the flow part of the gas generator, part of the compressor blades were replaced, and Russian companies also completely assembled the auxiliary equipment, since Siemens shipped TPE only the turbines themselves. Then, the newspaper reports, the bankrupt OJSC Technopromexport (TPE), having bought Siemens turbines for Taman, simply resold them to the LLC of the same name, also owned by Rostec.
Lawyer of the A2 Law Office Maxim Safiulin, the publication notes, believes that formally the fact of the transfer of property rights to the new owner from the first buyer, although he did not use the equipment, allows us to say that the deal was concluded on the secondary market, and also indicates that the resale of turbines, produced by STGT is the inalienable right of the buyer.
If any restrictions related to the impossibility of delivering equipment transferred into ownership to Crimea were written down in the contract, “then in the event of going to court, most likely, they will be declared void, since they are intended to limit the owner’s right to dispose of his property,” Safiulin believes.
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