DIA announced that it has achieved imposing interim measures on an ex-senator's assets, the founder of the International Industrial Bank Sergey Pugachev in France, Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands. Copies of the highest court of Nice and the High Court of the Cayman Islands is in "Vedomosti".
Arrest imposed on the "47-meter yacht DB9 Palmer Johnson production, registered in the Cayman Islands, and the French villa Pugacheva, including Chateau de Haro," Annushka "chalet" Valberg "and villa number 40, located in Saint-Jean-Cap -Ferra "transferred to the DIA report. In Luxembourg, interim measures "imposed by a bailiff" and "act in respect of the shares of the holding company through which Pugachev owns their French villas," said representative of the agency.
Representative Pugachev Dmitry Morochenko denies it: according to him, neither the ex-senator nor his lawyers "have not received any official documents about this and did not know of their existence," and "French lawyers Pugacheva checked information [DIA] and found no Providersnyh measures against Pugachev assets, no court proceedings on this matter in France has not been. " "High Court in London June 14, 2015 ordered the ex-senator to disclose his assets under the freezing order, which was done (see incision -.." Vedomosti "). Since then, nothing new has happened, "- said Morochenko.
DIA thinks differently from trusts and other "corporate veil" it got directly to the property Pugacheva - "assets at their actual location," he said in a statement. The property is arrested for the replenishment of the bankruptcy estate IIB, sales and settlements with the creditors of the bank.
The experts found it difficult to quickly assess the value of the assets listed in the DIA report. Yacht similar to the DB9, length 52 m 2010 issue worth 19.9 million euros, according to online yacht broker Arcon. "I know of these three houses, located on Cap Ferrat: Villa Anoushka (actually it is two independent houses on a single plot of 27,5 weave) and Le Mas villa on a plot of 13.4 hundred, - says Director of Key Account departamenand the elite real estate Knight Frank Elena Yurgeneva. - These villas are well-known and offers for sale a number of companies specializing in premium real estate on the Cote d'Azur. Price approximately EUR 12-15 million for all three houses.
Mejprombank was declared bankrupt at the end of 2010, in early 2011, Pugachev left Russia. Two years later, the Central Investigation TFR management initiated a criminal case, accusing Pugachev in awarding property on a large scale. In the summer of 2015, Pugachev moved from the UK to France "in connection with his murder and threats to his family." In Russia he wanted.
A year ago, the Moscow Arbitration Court ruled to attract Pugacheva to vicarious liability for the obligations of Industrial Bank in the amount of 75.6 billion rubles .: court recognized its actual owner of the bank. In February 2016, London's High Court confirmed the decision of the Russian court for the recovery of this amount with Pugacheva.
Prior to the sale of business will not soon assets. The process of execution of court decisions and the implementation of even already arrested the debtor's property is long and laboriousfirst, said partner law office "Zamoskvorechye" Dmitry Shevchenko, citing the example of the Chateau de Haro: arrested back in 2012 (it was incorporated to the bank), it still has not found a buyer. By itself, the arrest is, as a rule, only the impossibility of the alienation of property, but not a ban on the use of them, says partner of law A2 Mikhail Alexandrov Bureau.