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FGVFO filed a lawsuit against former shareholders and managers of Trust Bank for 380 million UAH
On 17 August, the Commercial Court of Kyiv opened proceedings in case No. 910/9851/20 on a claim by the Deposit Guarantee Fund against former shareholders and top managers (including members of the supervisory board) of the bankrupt bank “Trust” for damages of 379,5 million UAH.
Among the defendants are, among others, Volodymyr Avramenko (controlled 78,9% of the bank’s shares), Serhiy Belyaev (16,1%), Sorin Maierian (5%), as well as Serhiy Budkin, Illia Yurov, Mykola Zaiets, Dmytro Dyachuk, Nataliya Holub, Tetiana Potemkina, Oleksandr Slomchynskyi, Mykola Fietisov, Oleksii Svyryd.
FGVFO bases its claims on the defendants’ “improper performance of their employment obligations, namely that they ‘engaged in risky activities contrary to the interests of JSC Bank “Trust” and its creditors’” (quote).
The NBU declared Trust Bank insolvent and sent it into liquidation in December 2016.
Context
As Finbalance wrote, in July 2020 the Commercial Court of Kyiv returned to the Deposit Guarantee Fund, without consideration, its statement of claim against former members of the management board and supervisory board of Platinum Bank for joint recovery of 1,48 billion UAH (case No. 910/6534/20). Among the defendants are, among others, Kateryna Rozhkova (former acting head of Platinum Bank’s management board, now first deputy chair of the NBU), Kostiantyn Smolskyi (former head of Platinum Bank’s management board), Hryhoriy Hurtovyi (former chairman of the supervisory board), and others.
10.06.2020 The Northern Commercial Court of Appeal refused to satisfy the Deposit Guarantee Fund’s appeal and left unchanged the decision of the Commercial Court of Kyiv dated 16.01.2020 (in case No. 910/15260/18), which denied the Fund’s claim against former members of the supervisory board, management board, and credit committee of the bankrupt bank “Standard” for recovery of 764 million UAH in damages that, according to FGVFO’s estimates, were caused by the bank’s asset shortfall for covering creditors’ claims and by the defendants’ unlawful actions.
19.02.2020 The Northern Commercial Court of Appeal refused to satisfy the Deposit Guarantee Fund’s appeal against the decision of the Commercial Court of Kyiv dated 13.03.2019 (in case No. 910/12803/18), which denied the Fund’s claim against former officials of Tavrika Bank for joint recovery of 2,68 billion UAH in damages.
27.11.2019 The Northern Commercial Court of Appeal refused to satisfy the Deposit Guarantee Fund’s appeal and left unchanged the Commercial Court of Kyiv’s ruling dated 16.09.2019 (in case No. 910/7186/19), which granted the petition of former top managers of the bankrupt Delta Bank and returned to consideration the Fund’s claim against them for damages of 19,83 billion UAH.
24.10.2019 The Commercial Court of Kharkiv region refused to grant the Deposit Guarantee Fund’s claim against former top managers of Zoloti Vorota Bank for joint recovery of caused damages in the amount of 563,2 million UAH (case No. 922/2860/18).
18.09.2019 The Northern Commercial Court of Appeal refused to satisfy the Deposit Guarantee Fund’s appeal and left unchanged the Commercial Court of Kyiv’s decision dated 28.02.2019 (in case No. 910/11371/18), which denied FGVFO’s claim against former officials of Lehbank for damages in the amount of 412,2 million UAH (quote).
13.05.2019 The Northern Commercial Court of Appeal refused to satisfy the Deposit Guarantee Fund’s appeal and left unchanged the Commercial Court of Kyiv’s decision dated 20.12.2018 (in case No. 910/11027/18), which denied the Fund’s claim against related parties of Ukkoopspilka Bank for recovery of 76,93 million UAH in damages (among the defendants were former members of the bank’s management board and supervisory board).
25.07.2019 The Supreme Court, in case No. 916/2733/18, returned to the Deposit Guarantee Fund its statement of claim against former beneficiaries (including Leonid Klimov) and top managers of Imexbank for recovery of 18,98 billion UAH in damages (quote).
08.04.2019 The Supreme Court, in case No. 910/16336/18, returned to FGVFO its claim against some former shareholders and top managers of Nadra Bank for damages of 10 billion UAH.
11.09.2019 The Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court decided to leave unchanged the Kyiv Court of Appeal’s ruling dated 08.08.2018, which, due to a jurisdictional violation in case No. 757/75153/17-c, had annulled the decision of the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv dated 02.04.2018, which in turn had denied the Deposit Guarantee Fund’s civil claim against former top managers of Forum Bank for recovery of 2 billion UAH.
07.08.2019 The Supreme Court satisfied the Deposit Guarantee Fund’s cassation appeal in case No. 910/10888/18 and overturned the lower courts’ decisions that had left FGVFO’s claim against former top managers of Forum Bank without consideration for recovery of 1,99 billion UAH in “damage caused to the bank by related parties” (quote). The cassation court sent the case for consideration to the Commercial Court of Kyiv.
25.07.2019 The Supreme Court refused to satisfy the cassation appeal of former head of the management board and shareholder of Kyivska Rus Bank, Viktor Bratko, and left unchanged the Northern Commercial Court of Appeal’s ruling dated 21.02.2019, which transferred to the Commercial Court of Kyiv the consideration of case No. 910/15469/18 (on the Deposit Guarantee Fund’s claim against V. Bratko and other officials of Kyivska Rus Bank for recovery of 1,67 billion UAH).
10.07.2019 The Supreme Court refused to satisfy the Deposit Guarantee Fund’s cassation appeal and left unchanged the lower courts’ decisions in case No. 910/14734/18, which returned the Fund’s statement of claim (for failure to remedy its deficiencies) against former shareholders and top managers of Creditprombank (including Mykola Lahun) for recovery of 532,9 million UAH.
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