THE COURT HAS BEGUN CONSIDERATION OF THE BANKRUPTCY CASE OF THE OBUKHOVSKAYA MINE MANAGEMENT

THE COURT HAS BEGUN CONSIDERATION OF THE BANKRUPTCY CASE OF THE OBUKHOVSKAYA MINE MANAGEMENT

THE COURT HAS BEGUN CONSIDERATION OF THE BANKRUPTCY CASE OF THE OBUKHOVSKAYA MINE MANAGEMENT
On January 23, the Rostov Arbitration Court accepted for consideration a claim for bankruptcy of the mine management located in the Zverevo urban district (case No. A53-936/2024). The basis for the appeal was the debt of the organization in the amount of 3.3 million. The plaintiff is Debetoff, a company specializing in collecting payments.

The mine management department has a license allowing it to develop the subsoil of the Gukovo-Zverevsky coal-bearing region (Eastern Donbass). It is known that the coal mine, which is in operation at Obukhovskaya, began work back in 1978. At the moment, specialists estimate the capacity of the enterprise at 1.5 million tons of anthracite annually. The volume of reserves of the mine field is about 74 million tons.

Since 2012, Obukhovskaya, together with the Donskoy Anthracite company, has been owned by DTEK, controlled by the Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov. In May 2022, information appeared that both organizations had become an asset of Sberbank.

The credit institution transferred them to the Cypriot company Valleyton Investments at a price of $ 230 million. No official information about its owners was published, but a number of Ukrainian media linked the organization to Vadim Novinsky, who worked in partnership with Akhmetov. Now all the shares of the mine management are owned by the Cypriot company Fabcell Ltd.

According to Kommersant, Debetoff received the rights to claim the debt from the Institute of Mining (SIC), to which the company applied as a customer in 2022. The project was completed, but not fully paid for. Out of 2.7 million, SIC received only 200 thousand. As a result, the Debetoff company bought the debt for 2 million, filed for bankruptcy and supplemented the principal amount of the debt (2.5 million) with a claim for payment of a penalty.

According to official sources, the head of the Russian state recently issued a regulatory act authorizing the Russian company Best Solution to purchase shares of Obukhovskaya and Donskoy Anthracite owned by Fabcell Ltd. It is unknown whether this will help the company avoid bankruptcy, given the total number of lawsuits initiated in court since the spring of 2023. The organization appears in 25 lawsuits as a defendant.

02.02.2024