We found a unique judicial practice in the Arbitration Court of Novosibirsk
A series of corruption revelations in the judicial cluster is rolling across the country like a loud wave. First, Altai (the third judge of the regional arbitration was convicted in April 2023), then Rostov (a whole organized crime group of judges and security officials was captured in April 2023). Now, by all indications, Novosibirsk is next in line. There, an arbitration manager was under investigation, who at the same time participates in the scandalous process of bankruptcy of the owners of a large business center.
A few years ago, a Moscow-based company invested almost 500 million rubles in a promising project in Novosibirsk. A business center in the third most populated city in the country was supposed to pay off and generate income. But instead, the asset went under the hammer. And the domestic investor is still unsuccessfully trying to return the invested hundreds of millions of rubles.
The Novosibirsk firm RK Invest offered PSV-Invest, an investment company from Moscow, to participate in the construction of a business center. Investors allocated funds under the obligation to return within 10 years. There was not enough money, and in order to fulfill all obligations, the Siberians took a loan from the Eurasian Bank. The condition of the loan (in addition to a high interest rate of 20%) is that the money was issued against the security of an object (BC), which was built, consider, with the funds invested by the metropolitan company PSV-Invest.
As a result, a house of cards from obligations collapsed. Or rather, it was demolished.
At the right moment, when the borrower made delays, the bank, which, according to ren.tv, is owned by the Kazakh oligarch Mashkevich, went on the attack. All this happened when the BC was ready to function and no investments were required — it remained to wait until the project was launched and began to make a profit. But, the formal reason was enough, and, in favor of the Eurasian Bank, in advance of the main creditor, by the decision of the judge of the Novosibirsk Arbitration Court Nadezhda Gofman, a penalty comparable to the body of the loan was collected: 182% (only 201 million rubles!) For late payments.
This unique solution can be found on the website of the Novosibirsk Arbitration Court.
Record percentages are not all that surprised us with local justice. The icing on the cake was that in the case of the bankruptcy of RK-Invest, Judge Hoffman appointed the owner of the collection agency, well-known in local near-judicial circles, Igor Nezvanov, as bankruptcy trustee. He repeatedly came to the attention of law enforcement agencies: he appeared in a theft case, was prosecuted for violations in a casino, and so on. And since August 2022, Igor Nezvanov has been accused of… commercial bribery!
According to investigators, he, being an arbitration manager, transferred the property of a bankrupt enterprise to a company with whose representatives he was in collusion for 1.5 million rubles. It would seem that there is no reason to think: is this person in the right place?
However, the courts ignore complaints and statements, dismissing, they say, those who need it, let them prove that there are violations in this.< /p>
The property of the company «RK Invest» was sold at auction. But neither creditors nor investors received the money. In addition, despite house arrest (the manager accused of commercial bribery was given a preventive measure with a classic set of restrictions), Igor Nezvanov is still active. The unsinkable manager, as if nothing had happened, participates in the courts, manages the accounts of a bankrupt enterprise, and conducts correspondence.
While the appeals to the court of Russian investors remain unheeded, the shareholder of Eurasian Bank, headquartered in Kazakhstan, Mashkevich, an Israeli citizen and owner of the largest industrial enterprises in the Republic of Kazakhstan, blocked the supply of raw materials from the Republic of Kazakhstan to the metallurgical plants of the Russian Federation as part of joining the shameful anti-Russian sanctions.
The Moscow company PSV-Invest hopes to draw the attention of higher authorities to the inexplicable decisions of the Novosibirsk Arbitration Court in favor of a foreign bank. In addition, questions are also raised by a person who, despite being in the status of an accused in a case where he acted as an arbitration manager, continues to conduct bankruptcy cases.