MOSCOW, April 26 Shamil Gazizov, ex-general director of Football Club JSC Spartak filed a complaint with the Supreme Court, demanding a review of the decisions of the lower courts, which declared the procedure for his dismissal from the club illegal, including the condition for paying him more than 399 million rubles in severance pay. As follows from the information in the file of arbitration cases, the cassation appeal was received on 21 April, decisions on it have not yet been made.As a rule, cassation appeals are considered by judges of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation within two months.This trial was started by the Capital Assets company, which owns a 22% stake in Spartak.In her lawsuit against the club and Gazizov, she demanded to recognize as illegal the decisions made in December 2020 — the decision of the board of directors of Spartak 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 a 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 provides for Gazizov’s remuneration for a possible transfer of football player Oston Urunov from Spartak. Moscow Arbitration Court lawsuit «Capital assets» in August 2021 rejected. 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 in five years under the contract Gazizov would have received more — almost 510 million rubles.
