Administration of Yekaterinburg is driving trampoline business of the city to bankruptcy

Administration of Yekaterinburg is driving trampoline business of the city to bankruptcy

Administration of Yekaterinburg is driving trampoline business of the city to bankruptcy
The mayor's office of Yekaterinburg filed an application with the arbitration court about the necessity to declare bankruptcy of the Vimax company.  The company, owned by the entrepreneur Maxim Pytsko, gained fame this year thanks to the trampolines that were installed in different districts of Yekaterinburg.  The date of hearings on the case has not yet been announced.

Administration officials said in an interview with the media that the prosecutions against Vimax are related to the debts on the lease of land plots owned by the municipality.  Applications for the collection of debts for 11.3 million and 2.1 million rubles were also submitted to the Sverdlovsk regional arbitration court.
The owner of business believes that the city authorities are trying to ‘scare’ the business in this way.
According to him, on December 1, cassation hearings will take place.  In the course of them, the court verdicts adopted earlier in favor of the mayor's office will be canceled, and the insolvency claim itself will have to be withdrawn by the municipal officials.

The reason for the conflict between the administration of Yekaterinburg and the organizers of summer attractions for children (including owners of huge inflatable trampolines) were gaps in regional legislation.  According to the representatives of the mayor's office, they were successfully used by Maxim Pytsko.

The businessman, who was himself an employee of the regional ministry for state property management (MUGISO), managed to place trampolines in various places for free, using the right to free rent.  Some attractions in the summer worked near the presidential center of B. N. Yeltsin and near the residence of the plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation.
A proposal from MUGISO to amend the regulatory framework regarding free lease of municipal or state property has already been put on the agenda earlier.
At the end of August, the corresponding amendments were adopted at the official level.  But it is not clear yet whether they will influence the decision of the court.

19.11.2021