Kaliningrad Commercial Sea Port

History

2023

The court seized 51.75% of the shares of the Kaliningrad Commercial Sea Port from the deputy of United Russia and ordered him to pay 369 million rubles

In July 2023, the Central District Court of Kaliningrad seized from the State Duma deputy from United Russia Andrei Kolesnik and his family 51.75% of the shares of the Kaliningrad Commercial Sea Port (KMTP) in state revenue. As Vedomosti writes with reference to the statement of claim of the Prosecutor General's Office, Kolesnik violated the requirements of anti-corruption legislation: he illegally acquired and secretly owned KMTP shares, illegally conducted commercial activities to manage the port and was illegally enriched. Read more here.

Recovery by the state of 46.5% of the shares of the port

The Arbitration Court of the Kaliningrad Region recovered from the state illegally acquired 46.5% of the shares of Kaliningrad Commercial Sea Port JSC (KMTP, one of the largest stevedores in the port of Kaliningrad) at the suit of the Prosecutor General's Office and the FAS. This was announced on May 15, 2023 by Interfax with reference to the decision of the court.

The illegal acquisition of shares of the strategic enterprise by Orneto Partners LP and Purim D.Yu., which are part of the same group with the participation of a foreign investor, including a state registered in the territory of the state, committing unfriendly actions against the Russian Federation, contradicts the foundations of the country's law and order and threatens its security, - said in the case file cited by the agency. - Summarizing the above, the court concludes that the special legal consequences of the invalidity of the null and void transaction, namely, the conversion of shares acquired under null and void transactions to the income of the Russian Federation, should be applied to the transactions for the purchase and sale of shares dated December 24, 2020 and May 13, 2022.

Kalinigrad port

The Prosecutor General's Office disputes the purchase of Orneto Partners LP and Dmitry Purim of KMTP shares. The lawsuit was filed on March 1, 2023, follows from the data in the file of cases. The court ruling says that the Scottish company acquired 43,000 shares of the terminal on December 24, 2020., Dmitry Purim - 3,500 shares on May 13, 2022. The amount of transactions in the court materials was not disclosed. The authorized capital of KMTP consists of 100,000 shares with a par value of 1 ruble.

The prosecutor's office justifies the claim by the fact that a group of persons with a foreign investor established control over a society "of strategic importance for ensuring the defense and security of the state." The plaintiff insists the deal should have been agreed with the government's Foreign Investment Control Commission, which has not been done.^[1]

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