The plaintiff accuses the German manufacturer of losses due to the termination of an agreement to assemble cars at a plant in Nizhny Novgorod.
< p> The German concern Volkswagen began to assemble cars at the facilities of the GAZ group plant located in Nizhny Novgorod in 2012. The production capacity of this site is designed to produce 132 thousand cars annually. The production of VW Taos was launched here, as well as Skoda Kodiaq, Karoq and Octavia. The company suspended the conveyor in the spring, and the decision to stop the production of machines at this enterprise was made last summer. Now the GAZ group has filed a lawsuit against Volkswagen.
According to the appeal, the car plant of the GAZ group demands to invalidate the termination of the agreement with Volkswagen on the contract assembly of cars. The agreement on contract assembly was to be valid until the end of 2025. The applicant said that this decision by VW led to losses incurred by the Russian company: their size, according to the plaintiff, amounted to 15.6 billion rubles. The corresponding lawsuit was filed on March 14 with the Arbitration Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Region.
The GAZ group demands to recover the funds in the amount of the loss from the German concern. Based on the results of the consideration, the arbitration court granted the petition and seized all the property of the concern in the Russian Federation: we are talking about shares in the Russian representative office of Volkswagen, as well as in legal entities controlled by it.
According to RBC, the list of assets includes the shares of 28.06% of Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, 16.8% of Skoda Auto A.S. and 55.14% Volkswagen Dinance Luxemburg S.A. in the authorized capital of Volkswagen Group Rus LLC; share of Volkswagen Group Rus LLC in the authorized capital of Volkswagen KS LLC, Scania Insurance LLC and Scania Finance LLC, as well as eleven real estate objects of Volkswagen Group Rus LLC, production equipment and other movable property of the manufacturer.< /p>
In addition, the court prohibited any registration actions related to the liquidation, reorganization, change in the composition of participants, as well as the increase and decrease in the authorized capital in Volkswagen Group Rus LLC (FGR), Scania Insurance and » Scania Finance.
The court ruling says that, according to GAZ, the Volkswagen concern intends to “finally leave the Russian market in the near future by selling the remaining assets to third parties, which creates the risk of alienating both shares in the authorized capital of the FGR and the alienation of certain assets by the FGR, for example, its car manufacturing plant in Kaluga. The plaintiff added that the basis for taking interim measures is that in the event of the sale of a share in the authorized capital of Volkswagen Group Rus, the concern will not have any other assets in the Russian Federation.
Let us recall that official information about who can buy the VW plant in Kaluga, yet. However, the media previously named potential applicants: at first it was assumed that a deal could be concluded with AFK Sistema (later it was reported that there would be no deal), then the dealer holding Avilon was named the next owner of the asset. The production of Volkswagen Polo, Tiguan and Skoda Rapid models was launched at this site.