The Ministry of Justice allowed an appeal to the Constitutional Court on the claims of former shareholders of the Yukos

The head of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, Alexander Konovalov, admits the possibility of appeal to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation regarding the possibility of non -fulfillment of the decision of the European Court of Human Rights on the claims of former shareholders of the Yukos NK.

“These decisions also raise big questions, and I do not exclude that someday we will turn to the Constitutional Court with these issues that we will lay in the request in the Constitutional Court,” Interfax quoted Konovalov’s comment.

As the minister explained, subsequent decisions, including the decision of the Strasbourg Court, show that the claims of former shareholders of the Yukos are regarded in different jurisdictions in different ways.

"The same ECHR to a large extent took the position of the Russian Federation to a large extent, refusing Yukos essentially in recognizing the nature of the dispute by political," the minister said.

Recall that the President of the Russian Federation approved a law that allows not to execute the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, in December 2015. Under this law, the president and the Government of the Russian Federation may send to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation requests for the possibility of execution of decisions of interstate bodies for the protection of human rights and freedoms. The first such request was sent in early February and touched the case of “Antchugov and smoothness against Russia” - on the contradiction of the norms prescribed in the Constitution of the Russian Federation on the absolute ban for the concluded in the elections of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Meanwhile, in April, the consideration of Russian complaints in the Hague court was expected to recover $ 50 billion in favor of former Yukos shareholders. The Russian side asked to recognize the Hague court who has no competence to consider the Yukos case.

Recall that the Yukos oil company was declared bankrupt in 2006. Its former shareholders claim that the Russian authorities illegally got the corporation assets. In July 2014, the arbitration court in the Hague satisfied the lawsuit of former shareholders of the Yukos NK and ordered Russia to pay them $ 50 billion. After Russia refused to pay, the shareholders of the Yukos demanded to recover compensation forcibly. So, in early June 2015, Belgium arrested the state -owned state of Russia. Her example was followed by France and Germany.

In addition, the European Court of Human Rights ordered Russia to pay compensation to the same plaintiffs in 1.86 billion euros, as well as 300 thousand euros as a compensation for legal costs. Last summer, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation decided that some decisions of the ECHR may not be executed if they contradict the basic law of the country. In December, the State Duma secured this position at the legislative level. In February 2015, it became known that Russia submitted three petitions to the Hague district to cancel the arbitration decisions - the number of plaintiffs.