the Court declared a break in consideration of claim of “Rosneft” to RBC to give the defense more time to study findings, supporting the claim of the company amounting to more than 3 billion rubles. the document went to the RBC two days before the court
the Moscow Arbitration court on Friday postponed consideration of the claim of “Rosneft” to RBC about protection of business reputation and recovery of more than 3 billion rubles, the correspondent of RBC from the courtroom. The next court hearing scheduled for 12 December.
to Declare a break in hearings requested by RBC. Attorney Yevgeny Reznik, representing the defendants, noted that RBC received an opinion justifying the claim of “Rosneft” only on 9 November, two days before consideration of the claim on the merits.
“Our colleagues had prepared him (the conclusion. — RBC) for several months. We had only a few days. We need to study with specialists”, — said the lawyer.
RBC Defense on Friday also asked to bring the case as a third British company BP, which owns a 19.75% of Rosneft. But this motion the court denied.
the Representative of “Rosneft” on Friday said the amount of the claim: it increased by 55 million rubles, to 3,179 billion. As previously wrote RBC, the amount of 3,179 billion rubles is specified in the conclusion attracted by Rosneft of the Center for professional assessment as the assessment of potential reputational harm.
“Rosneft” has addressed in court because of the article “Sechin asked the government to protect Rosneft from BP”, published on 11 April 2016. The text was about the preparations for the privatization of 19.5% of “Rosneft”. Sources told RBC that the chief Executive of Rosneft and Chairman of the Board of Directors of “Rosneftegaz” (through the state owns 69.5% of Rosneft) Igor Sechin has suggested to oblige the buyer of the package is not to enter into a shareholder agreement with BP, which owns a 19.75% Rosneft that it could not obtain directly or together with a partner a blocking stake in the company. The representative of “Rosneft” during the preparation of the article declined to comment.
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“Rosneft” after the article said that the information is untrue and discredits the business reputation of the company. In April, the company has submitted to arbitration court of Moscow the claim. The lawsuit is the founder of RBK, OOO “BusinessPress”, RBC TV channel and journalists Timofey Dzyadko, Lyudmila Podobedova, Maxim Tovkailo and Konstantin Bochkarev.
Initially, “Rosneft” in the claim demanded to refute are contained in the article data. At the end of September, the company changed the claim, demanding from RBC 3,124 billion RUB In the same amount Center for professional assessment estimated the potential reputational harm to the company.
finally, the evaluators entered the RBC on 9 November. In the document, the evaluators recognize that the publication of RBC did not have any impact on the capitalization of “Rosneft”, nor its relationship with BP. The validity of the financial requirements of the company they explained the “unsystematic risk”.
read More about what happened during consideration of the claim of “Rosneft” to the RBC, read the online translation.
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