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Bashneft and Rosneft filed a claim against AFK Sistema for 131 billion
Updated: Rosneft announced its readiness to drop the second lawsuit against AFK Sistema for 131 billion rubles. if the company fully recognizes the decision of the court of first instance and expresses its readiness to help enforce this decision, told RBC . Rosneft spokesman Mikhail Leontiev
The Bashneft and Rosneft companies filed a claim with the Arbitration Court of the Republic of Bashkortostan against AFK Sistema and Sistema-Invest for damages in the amount of 131 billion 639 million 12 thousand 421 rubles. The amount of the claim corresponds to the amount of dividends withdrawn by the defendants from Bashneft from 2009 to 2014 in their favor, according to an official statement on the website . Rosneft
AFK Sistema, illegally owning assets, using various schemes, including in the form of illegal payment of unprecedented dividends in its favor, consistently withdrew funds from Bashneft necessary to ensure the normal, uninterrupted and technically safe operation of the company ", - reported in Rosneft.
The company assures that they have made every possible effort to reach a settlement agreement. But the defendants did not go to the meeting and did not offer any constructive proposals for resolving the dispute.
“The requirements for the return of funds withdrawn in the form of dividends logically follow from the decision of the court of first instance, in which the defendant is recognized as an unscrupulous shareholder who illegally owned shares, guilty of deliberately causing damage to Bashneft and removing property and assets from it in his favor,” - explained in the message "Rosneft".
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