Tattranscom+ creditors have little chance of getting their money back

The bankruptcy manager of Tattranskom+ LLC, for which the main bank loans of the Tattranskom automobile holding (Sapsan showrooms) were issued, is trying to find money to pay off the LLC’s debts to banks in the amount of about 3 billion rubles. Based on his claim, the arbitration court decided to recover 153 million rubles. from other enterprises of the group. However, the owner of the holding, Ildar Zinnurov, made it clear that creditors should not count on the assets of his operating companies.

The arbitration court satisfied the claim of Tattranscom+ LLC for the recovery of 153 million rubles. unjust enrichment with LLC Media Service and LLC Investment Company Vostok, Vostok Credit, Vostok Service, Vostok Stroy, which spun off from it.

Collection of Tattranscom+ debts is taking place as part of its bankruptcy proceedings - it was declared bankrupt in May 2011. Thus, the company is trying to find funds to pay off debts to banks. As the bankruptcy trustee of Tattranscom+, Alexey Leonov, told the court, the LLC was an operating company and attracted loans to finance other enterprises of the Tattranscom holding of Ildar Zinnurov. The total debt of Tattranscom+ is about 3 billion rubles. The bankruptcy procedure was initiated by VTB Bank, to which the company owed 145 million rubles, among the creditors were MDM Bank (almost 470 million rubles), OJSC Moskvichka (367 million rubles, JSCB Absolut Bank (717 million rubles), Almet Invest + LLC (RUB 392 million), BTA Kazan Bank (RUB 465.5 million) and SOKKER Invest LLC (RUB 76 million).

As of April 1, 2010, the Tattranscom holding included 23 companies in Kazan, Naberezhnye Chelny, Cheboksary and Kirov. Previously, the holding's share of the car sales market in Tatarstan was about 16%. He was an official representative of Ford, Volvo, Skoda, Audi and Honda. Currently, according to the owner of the holding, Ildar Zinnurov, he has 7 car dealerships with a total sales volume of 250-300 million rubles, or approximately 300 cars per month.

Tattranskom+ and Media Service are related companies that are directly related to Mr. Zinnurov’s family. “Media Service” owns the Honda car dealership on Kosmonavtov, 71 in Kazan. The Skoda car dealership on Kosmonavtov, 73 is owned in different shares by the investment company Vostok, Vostok Credit and Vostok Stroy. To date, all these enterprises have initiated bankruptcy proceedings, and the cases are being considered by the court.

At the court hearing, the bankruptcy trustee presented documents confirming the fact of the transfer of 153 million rubles. to the Media Service account under “temporary financial assistance and loan agreements.” “The bankruptcy trustee has the right to declare a waiver of the contract, which causes damage to the debtor... and thereby the contract is considered terminated. The consequence is the right to demand a refund of the money paid,” said Mr. Leonov. However, the contract itself was not presented to the court. However, the representative of Media Service did not deny its existence, but stated that Media Service had previously provided Tattransky+ with a loan of 200 million rubles, and the above-mentioned 153 million rubles. were transferred to pay off this debt. However, there was no evidence of this either, and as a result the court sided with the plaintiff.

Ildar Zinnurov told Kommersant that Tattranscom+ was a “dealer representative” and not an operating company. “At that time, the holding had hundreds of legal entities, and funds were constantly being transferred between them. Tattranskom+ provided a short-term loan to Media Service, but it returned it. It is not clear why the court did not take this into account,” Mr. Zinnurov commented on the process, promising to appeal the court’s decision. Mr. Zinnurov said at the same time that Tattranskom+ has not been operating for several years and its liquidation will not affect the state of affairs of the group of companies.

Mr. Leonov considers the restoration of Tattranscom+’s solvency to be extremely unlikely. The company has no property, but it has a lot of debtors, the total amount of debt is about 2.5 billion rubles. It will not be easy to return the money, because debtors who own assets protect themselves by initiating their own bankruptcy proceedings, he told Kommersant.

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