"Power capture and blocking of activity." What happens to Natura Siberica

The corporate conflict in Natura Siberica continues. After the death of the founder of the company Andrei Trubnikov, his relatives could not agree who would manage the business, while the hereditary case is being considered, the Bell found out earlier. As a result, the operational control received a confidential manager of the shares of Trubnikov. A group of heirs accused him of raiding, he evaluates his role in a completely different way. We learned the positions of both sides.

What's happened

At the end of May, The Bell found ten rulings of the vessels in the claims of the Trubnikov relatives against legal entities NATURA SIBERICA in a file cabinet.

More than all claims - eight - in April 2021 was filed by the first wife of businessman Irina Trubnikova, who has shares in the first solution LLC, mainly the legal entity of Natura Siberica (23%), and eight more companies associated with the brand (from 40 to 50%). In one lawsuit, the son of a businessman from Irina Trubnikova Dmitry Trubnikov (he has 15% of the “first decision”) and the second wife Oksana Trubnikova - in the interests of the deceased minor daughter Elizabeth Trubnikova.

Who claims to be inheritance

Andrei Trubnikov had four heirs, Two Bell told Two people who are familiar with the progress of the matter: son Dmitry and daughter Ekaterina from his first marriage, the daughter of Elizabeth from her second marriage and the third wife of Anastasia. According to The Bell, the last trumpets were in the process of divorce - the registry office did not have time to satisfy the application. According to several interlocutors of The Bell, under the terms of the marriage contract, Anastasia Trubnikova would have received less than it can get now.

Whether the Trubnikov left the testament, it was not possible to find out. In one of the last interviews, the businessman himself said that he did not want to bequeath the fortune to the children: “He would definitely not give anything to children. Let them earn. Why spoil their children? " If there is no will, the widow of the deceased has the right to allocate a marital share (50%), and the heirs of the first stage, that is, children, will receive the remaining in equal shares.

The claims, judging by the definitions in which they are quoted, are almost no different. The plaintiffs demand invalid decisions of extraordinary meetings of the participants of the LLC through which Natura Siberica works and take interim measures in the form of a prohibition to amend the constituent documents and information contained in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities.

Some of the extraordinary meetings were convened by the Legal Agency “Consulting”, part - the founder and president of this agency Boris Lyubositz. The notary Aigul Karnaukhov, who conducts a hereditary case, concluded with them the trust management of the shares of Trubnikov. The purpose of the assembly was to transfer business management "Consulting."

The courts of the plaintiffs completely refused the use of interim measures in eight claims. “Consulting Consulting” has become the sole executive body in most legal entities Natura Siberica.

How the conflict develops

First of all, Boris Lyubits was going to start the audit, but so far, as he says, he was not allowed to familiarize himself with any documents. At the same time, the representative of Natura Siberica claims that "he did not give written requirements, explanations of his actions or orders [Lashoshits]."

Boris Loveoshits

President of the Legal Agency "Consulting"

On June 1, we [with employees] came to the office. They opened the door to us and promised the other day to provide documents and information that we will request. On June 2, we again arrived at the office, but we were not given to work there, my company was not even allowed.

Audit and Due Diligence are needed (it will take about three weeks), the business control and monitoring system, and then repeated audit and Due Diligence before July 7, when the hereditary case should be completed. The audit will show what are the assets of the company (real estate, cars, shares in companies, trademarks, etc.), what is their cost.

The property will be divided between the heirs and after the end of my work. They will have the opportunity to independently appoint new general directors. They can sell everything and share money, can create an audit commission or board of directors, and, when distributing dividends, get their units in percentage. If they do not agree, perhaps a new wave of disputes will begin.

Kirill Popov

Lawyer of the company Natura Siberica

On June 2, the trusting manager was unhindered to the company's office, but he did not give any written requirements, explanations of his actions or orders, defiantly stating that "we must go and take everything ourselves."

The trusting manager claims that the only way to manage a share is the appointment of his management. However, he does not have any information about the state of affairs, since for three months of his activity he did not request it and did not initiate audit.

We believe that the raider seizure is taking place. The strongest brand of Russian cosmetics, the company that businessman Andrei Trubnikov, his [former] wife Irina Trubnikova and thousands of employees created for decades, are trying to destroy in an instant. We will not allow this.

The heirs of Andrei Trubnikov are currently forced to sue their own companies in order to prevent the seizure of control of third parties with unclean intentions. Their main goal is to save the company, which has been created for years, to maintain a strong domestic brand and jobs for people for whom they are responsible.

In fact, Natura Siberica is now managed by Irina Trubnikova, the company’s press service was told (“Irina Trubnikova-Business Partner Andrei Trubnikova for 20 years. She has more than 40% in business. All this time she performs the functions of Deputy General Director”). Irina Trubnikova herself wanted to become a confidential managing share of the deceased husband and lead the business for the time of consideration of the hereditary case. But her candidate was not supported by the third wife of Anastasia Trubnikova. (The Bell failed to contact her.) This laid the foundation for the conflict.

Boris Loveoshits

President of the Legal Agency "Consulting"

If the heirs agreed among themselves, the notary would be obliged to fulfill their will. The manager of the shares would be appointed a person whom they chose - anyone. But they did not agree! In this case, according to the law, the notary himself appoints the one whom he considers necessary. She [notary Aigul Karnaukhova] used to attract me to work, knew about my company, about my competencies, she could repeatedly make sure of our professionalism, so her choice is quite obvious.

Nobody could explain to me which my competencies is not enough [to manage Natura Siberica]. For example, the lawyer Irina Trubnikova Kirill Popov came to a meeting of heirs and expressed this claim, but he could not specify her. I am a member of the expert council of the Ministry of Finance, a member of the Public Council of the Federal Treasury. I can manage any enterprise, I studied this and have been doing this for a long time, worked on the Bashneft cases and other large companies.

What are the competencies of the heirs to appoint any of them the general directors? This is not known to me. Of course, in order to manage the enterprise, you need to have a whole set of competencies, so in each business there are specialists in individual industries. But for the general director, the main thing is that he is a specialist in financial management and strategy.

Kirill Popov

Lawyer of the company Natura Siberica

Boris Loveoshits was involved at the personal discretion of the notary Aigul Karnaukhova. She completely violated the interests of the heirs, since none of them previously knew and did not offer his candidacy. The heirs proposed another candidate - Irina Trubnikova, who worked with Andrei Trubnikov all the years, is a participant in all societies and works to this day, carrying out managerial functions.

What's next

Even during the life of Andrei Trubnikov, a loud trial began . If the company loses it, then, regardless of the outcome of the corporate conflict, the heirs risk almost nothing. This process is associated with a destructive fire at the Dmitrov experimental plant of an aluminum and combined tape (dosacle), where Natura Siberica rented premises.

Initially, the Court was filed by the EN+ recycling company, for which the energy supply assets of the plant were issued. Another plaintiff was a dosacle. Almost a year ago, The Bell was the first to tell about this lawsuit. Later, one of the plaintiffs was replaced by one of the plaintiffs. The place "En+ Recycling" was taken by Ingosstrakh. At the moment, Ingosstrakh requires almost 1.5 billion rubles, a dose of approximately 2.7 billion. Total - almost 4.2 billion. For comparison, the revenue of the “first solution” in 2020 amounted to 6.6 billion with a clean loss of 387 million rubles.

Boris Loveoshits

President of the Legal Agency "Consulting"

Until now, we have not had the opportunity to get acquainted with the details of the court, but this will definitely be done within the framework of Due Diligence and can significantly affect the cost of group companies. From open sources, I see that business Natura Siberica was estimated at 4.5-5 billion rubles. About the same amount of the claim. Our lawyers conducted a preliminary analysis of the dynamics of the development of this case. Previously, we, unfortunately, are forced to state that many opportunities have already been missed.

The press service of Natura Siberica did not comment on the prospect of the court at the time of the material release.