TOP-5 of notable litigations of 2014
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The cases of Sistema, YUKOS, Apple, RZhD and two more economic disputes appearing on the rating are important not only for certain trials but also for the forming of a new practice, which presumably will not keep us waiting for too long. Here is a reminder for those, who have missed everything.
The AFC Sistema case
The dispute upon a claim moved by the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia against AFC Sistema and Sistema-Invest CJSC to reclaim the shares of Bashneft Joint-Stock Oil Company OJSC from said companies to the benefit of the Russian Federation (case No. A40-155494/14) was perhaps the most notable of the last year.
The essence of the Prosecutor’s Office claims amounted to the following: as a result of adoption of a number of normative legal acts by the authorities of the Republic of Bashkortostan, and of execution of several void deals by a group of companies, the Russian Federation lost the shares of one of the largest ventures of the fuel and energy industry.