The mentally ill people in Tver can compensate for losses for the stolen shares of Gazprom

The 9th Arbitration Court of Appeal decided that the Tver Psychiatric Hospital has the right to demand compensation for losses from Gazprombank for 1.1655 million shares of Gazprom acquired for patients in patients.

The controversial stake was estimated at 207.9 million rubles, Kommersant writes.

We are talking about losses for the largest stake in Gazprom from 7.5 million, which were stolen in 1997 in the Tver depository of Corona Plus.

On June 1, 2004, the court in Tver found guilty of the embezzlement of two Crown Plus employees, deciding that Gazprombank did not provide proper control over her activities. After that, victims of citizens began to file lawsuits against Gazprombank to the Moscow Arbitration Court, demanding compensation for losses for shares.

The controversial package was purchased in 1994 by the head physician of the hospital Valery Babanov, who put these shares on his personal account of the depot in the "Crown Plus". From this account, the shares were stolen, and in 2001, Babanov was fired from the post of chief physician. In 2005, he transferred the rights to the stolen shares of the Federal Fund for Social Support of the Population, which filed the first claim to Gazprombank.

During the trials, it turned out that the hospital may demand compensation for losses from Gazprombank without any contract with the former head physician: all rights still belong to patients, and the hospital is their guardian and legal representative.

Now the Moscow Arbitration Court should resume the proceedings in which the hospital requires Gazprombank compensation for losses. But recently, Gazprombank appealed to the Constitutional Court with a complaint about the incorrect calculation of the limitation period. The appeal can seriously affect the situation and even predict the outcome of the case.