A Ukrainian court arrested shares of three Russian banks following a claim by Kolomoisky's structures
The Kyiv Court of Appeal seized the shares of Prominvestbank (owned by the Russian state corporation Vnesheconombank), Sberbank (owned by the Russian Sberbank) and VTB Bank (owned by the Russian state bank VTB), a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This was reported by FinBalance.
As noted, on September 5, the Court of Appeal. Kyiv satisfied the application of a number of companies associated with Igor Kolomoisky and his partners and seized the shares of three banks.
In addition, the Kiev Court of Appeal prohibited Prominvestbank, Sberbank and VTB Bank from liquidating or reorganizing a legal entity, as well as from carrying out any actions aimed at alienating movable and immovable property owned by these banks and alienating it in any way, including, but not exclusively, under contracts of sale, exchange, donation, etc.
These seizures of bank shares and the ban on them to alienate real and movable property were imposed by the Kiev Court of Appeal at the request of the companies of Igor Kolomoisky and his partners as security for their claim in case No. 796/165/2018 for recognition and permission to execute the decision of the Arbitration Court of The Hague (Netherlands ) dated 02.05.2018/2015/36 (in PTS case No. XNUMX-XNUMX) on the recovery of amounts from the Russian Federation represented by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation as compensation for real estate expropriated (taken away) from the mentioned companies in Crimea after its annexation by Russia.
The Privat companies justified their request to arrest the shares of Prominvestbank, Sberbank and VTB Bank by the fact that the decision of the Arbitration Court of The Hague (Netherlands) was due to Russia’s violation of the agreement between the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the Government of the Russian Federation on the encouragement and mutual protection of investments dated November 27.11.1998, 139 year - they were awarded $XNUMX million from the Russian Federation as compensation for their real estate in Crimea.
According to the “privatists”, the shares of Prominvestbank, Sberbank and VTB Bank as property of the Russian state on the territory of Ukraine “can be foreclosed on the basis of a decision of an international court” (quote from court materials).
In this context, the Kyiv Court of Appeal came to the conclusion that on the territory of Ukraine there is indeed “property that belongs to the Russian Federation and which can be foreclosed on the basis of a decision of an international court.”
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