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In the British Virgin Islands, at the request of the Russian VEB, the Ukrainian shares of the shipping company Fishing Company SA were stopped. The company is under the jurisdiction of the State Fisheries Agency and, in fact, is the only state-owned offshore company.
The bank’s press service told RBC that the decision was made by the island’s Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. This was preceded by two decisions in the Stockholm Arbitration Court in favor of the Russian bank.
They forced Ukraine to reimburse VEB for costs incurred in the course of arbitration in the investment dispute over Prominvestbank.
Ukraine refused to comply with the arbitration award. On October 15, the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court upheld and enforced the decision of the Stockholm Arbitration Court in the British Virgin Islands.
“VEB has repeatedly stated that it has the firm intention of recovering the full amount of Ukraine’s debt and is ready to act in all possible jurisdictions,” said Igor Krasnov, the bank’s chief lawyer.
Empresa Pesquera SA It owns several boats that fish in the waters of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
As OBOZREVATEL previously reported, in May 2018, the Arbitration Court in The Hague ordered Russia to compensate several Ukrainian companies for losses caused by the occupation of Crimea. In particular, it was about the amount of $ 159 million.
Russia was held responsible for violating the rights of Ukrainian investors as of March 21, 2014, when Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the annexation of Crimea.
A lawsuit against Russia was filed by 18 Ukrainian companies, as well as one person. In particular, the companies “Aerobud”, “Crimea Development”, “Niva-Tour”, “UBC-Invest”, “Edelweiss-2000”, PE “Planeta”, “Privatofis”, “Privatland”, “Dan-Panorama” , “Sanatorium Energetik”, AMC “Financial Capital” and AMC “Financial Vector”.
On September 12, 2018, the Kiev Court of Appeal arrested the shares of the Ukrainian subsidiaries of Russian banks with the participation of the state: VTB, Prominvestbank and Sberbank.
However, this ruling was appealed to the Supreme Court on September 14.
On October 2, 2018, the Kiev Court of Appeal allowed former PrivatBank head Alexander Dubilet and 17 other companies to recover compensation from Russia for the property in Crimea.
On November 26, Oschadbank won $ 1.3 billion in damages from the Russian Federation in International Arbitration.
The Dairis company of the Privat group of Ukrainian businessman Igor Kolomoisky collected and put up for auction a controlling stake in Prominvestbank.
In May 2019, first the bailiff and then the Kiev court considered Prominvestbank’s shares to be the property of the Russian state, although VEB said that the state corporation was not responsible for the obligations of the Russian Federation.
Prominvestbank shares were put up for sale. In February 2020, the Kiev District Administrative Court prohibited the forced sale of 97.77% of the shares of Prominvestbank.
However, in March 2020, a 99.77% stake in Prominvestbank was sold as part of the enforcement procedures in the auctions of the Ukrainian stock exchange.
