Comepay Payment system

Comepay is a universal payment system — the hardware and software system allowing to organize acceptance and transfer of payments of cellular operators, Internet service providers, VoIP operators, commercial television and any other services.

History

2020: Recognition by the bankrupt

On July 9, 2020 it became known of recognition by the bankrupt of Comepay. A claim for 327 million rubles to the operator of payment terminals was submitted by Alfa-Bank and won trial. In Comepay bankruptcy proceedings according to the decision of Arbitration court of Moscow were begun.

According to Kommersant with reference to judicial materials, Comepay in 2016 obtained from bank guarantees with a limit to 400 million rubles. However then the company ceased to fulfill obligations for guarantees before mobile operators for benefit of which it accepted payments via terminals: MegaFon (218 million rubles), VimpelCom (146 million rubles) and MTS (30 million rubles). 

The Russian operator of Comepay payment terminals is declared bankrupt

According to the edition, the receiver came to a conclusion that the debtor has no sufficient property for repayment of requirements of creditors.

Alfa-Bank reported to the newspaper that the owner of Comepay left the country and it was not ready to answer for obligations the company.

For protection of legitimate interests of bank we are going to pursue on the borrower secondary liability — added in the press service of bank.

There do not specify a name of the owner, but the source familiar with the bankruptcy course says that the speech about the chairman of the board of directors of the Finars-bank liquidated in 2017 Dmitry Tsatskhin.

Kommersant reminded of communication of Comepay and Finars-bank  at the level of the management: Igor Labazov, and his deputy — Dmitry Kotikov was the CEO of Comepay earlier, both are board members of bank. According to Labazov, he does not work in Comepay about one and a half, and the company her founder generally managed.

The analyst of VTB Capital Vladimir Bespalov considered  Comepay expected bankruptcy:

I do not think that in terms of the industry Comepay leaving — an essential event. Now terminals are rather infrastructure for business, but not the main source of income as at Qiwi.[1]

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