The Moscow Arbitration Court began to consider the claim of the company of the former head of Rosneft against RBC for 500 million rubles

The Moscow Arbitration Court began considering the claim of the Independent Oil and Gas Company (NOC), controlled by the former head of Rosneft Eduard Khudainatov, against RBC for 500 million rubles. this The publication itself reports ; information about the hearing is published in the court file.

The reason for the lawsuit was the article “Rosneft will sell shares in 6 projects and buy Payakha from Khudainatov” dated December 2, 2020.

The material talks about Rosneft’s plans to buy the Payakhskoye field in Taimyr from another company of Khudainatov, Neftegazholding, and also to sell shares in six assets.

“Neftegazholding <...> may participate in the purchase of a stake in six of its existing projects (or part of them),” journalists wrote, citing three sources close to the participants in the deal and a federal official.

After the article was published, Rosneft announced that it had entered into deals to sell its assets to several companies of the NNK group.

As a result, the hearing to consider the claim was postponed until August 24.

In May 2020, Rosneft filed a lawsuit against RBC for 43 billion rubles due to the publication “Ryazan private security company received a share in the former Venezuelan project of Rosneft.” The company claimed that the journalists created “the appearance of shamness of the previously announced deal on the complete withdrawal of Rosneft from business in Venezuela,” which provoked a “wave of disinformation” in the media. As a result, Rosneft withdrew the claim.