MOSCOW, Jan 30The Arbitration Court of the Moscow District accepted the cassation appeal of the former general director of the Spartak football club Shamil Gazizov for proceedings against the Capital Assets company, which owns 22% of the team's shares. February. The investigation was started by the Capital Assets company. In her lawsuit against the club and Gazizov, she demanded that the decisions taken in December 2020 be recognized as illegal — the decision of the Spartak board of directors to delegate to its chairman Leonid Fedun the right to determine the conditions for terminating the employment contract with Gazizov and Fedun's decision to agree on the termination of the contract on the terms of an additional agreement to it. One of the conditions established the obligation of the club to pay the ex-general director more than 399 million rubles in four monthly installments until March 10, 2021, the second provided for remuneration to Gazizov for a possible transfer of football player Oston Urunov from Spartak. The Moscow Arbitration Court completely rejected the claim of Capital Assets in August. In particular, he pointed out that in Spartak, since 2012, the club's board of directors has always delegated to the chairman or his deputy the authority to sign contracts on behalf of the club. The court also did not consider the severance pay excessive, since Gazizov would have received more under the contract for 5 years — almost 510 million rubles. In October, the Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal overturned this decision and satisfied the claim of the Spartak shareholder. He came to the conclusion that neither the law on joint-stock companies nor the club's charter «generally provides for cases of transferring the powers of the board of directors to its chairman.» In parallel, Gazizov, who received only the first tranche (about 100 million rubles), in Bashkiria demanded to recover from Spartak contract debt. Oktyabrsky District Court of Ufa in June satisfied his claim, obliging the club to pay more than 299 million rubles of principal, more than 5 million rubles of interest and 10,000 rubles of moral damages. However, the Supreme Court of Bashkiria in December overturned the decision on the club's appeal and dismissed the claim. At the same time, the appellate instance referred, among other things, to the decision of the Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal.
