
Rosneft and Bashneft filed a lawsuit against the AFK Sistema and its subsidiary of System-Invest to compensation for losses in the amount of 131.639 billion rubles to the Arbitration Court of the Republic of Bashkortostan. This was reported by the press service of the oil company.
"The amount of the claim corresponds to the amount of dividends received by the defendants from the Bashneft ANC from 2009 to 2014 in their favor, minus paid taxes," the amount of the claim was substantiated at Rosneft.
"As established by the court of first instance, AFC Sistema, illegally owning assets, during the period preceding the return of the company to state ownership by decision of the court, using various schemes, including in the form of illegal payment of dividends unprecedented in their favor, consistently withdrew funds from the" Bashneft "necessary to ensure normal, uninterrupted and technically safe work In the message.
"The result of this activity was a violation of the terms and quality of repair services, the wear of the equipment, which led, in particular, to the accidents at the factories of the Ufa group. All this made it necessary to attract multi -millionaire additional funds to ensure industrial safety of Bashneft enterprises," Rosneft notes.
The main co -co -owner of the System Vladimir Yevtushenkov called Rosneft's new lawsuit the "intimidation action".
The Kremlin refused to comment on the lawsuit. "I do not yet have this information, I do not know about the details of this new claim, but in any case this is a matter of arbitration trial. We cannot intervene," said the presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
In response to the question of how the filing of a new lawsuit with the appeal of Vladimir Putin is consistent to resolve controversial issues by global agreements, Peskov said: "Yes, the president really had a point of view - he remains a supporter of the world (agreements), but still made specific decisions of business entities."
On August 23, the judge of the Bashkiri Arbitration Court Irina Nurishamova ordered AFK Sistema and the System-Invest company to pay almost 136 billion 274 million rubles in the Rosneft claim . Thus, the lawsuit was partially satisfied - Rosneft insisted on paying 170.6 billion rubles. Also, almost 160 thousand rubles of state duty were recovered from the defendants.
The decision of Nurislavamova will be appealed, said in the "system".
Rosneft stated that during the reorganization of Bashneft in 2014, this enterprise was damaged. Earlier, Bashneft belonged to the structures of the “system”, but in 2016 it turned into the ownership of Rosneft. Initially, the plaintiffs estimated the damage of 106.6 billion rubles; Then they were increased.
The "system" offered Rosneft to resolve the dispute in a non -judicial basis. However, the state -owned company said they were not interested in "extrajudicial compromises."