A panel of judges of the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court (VAKS) at a meeting on Friday granted an administrative lawsuit of the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice against Russian MP Leonid Babashov to confiscate his assets under clause 1-1 part 1 of Article 4 of the Ukrainian law “On Sanctions.”
This without specifying the name of the Russian parliamentarian reported on the website of the VAKS.
“The court’s decision to recover to the state assets belonging to the defendant or in respect of which the defendant exercised rights identical to the right to dispose of them. It is a part of a land plot; a residential house; non-residential buildings; a vehicle; corporate rights. The appeal may be filed with the Appellate Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice within 5 days from the date of pronouncement of the decision, “- the court said in a statement.
The fact that it is Babashov, said the head of the Department of sanction policy of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine Inna Bogatykh.
“VAKS today also satisfied the claim of the Ministry of Justice to Babashov L.I. – a Russian State Duma deputy from the political party “United Russia”, who supported the laws on the ratification of treaties on friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance between the Russian Federation and the so-called “LNR” and “DnR”, as well as a number of laws by which the Russian Federation tries to legalize the annexation of the occupied territories of Ukraine. Actively expresses public support for the Putin regime. Real estate and land plots in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, corporate rights, movable property have been recovered to the state”, – wrote Rich in Facebook late Friday night.
According to her, this is the 17th satisfied claim on the confiscation of assets, but three decisions have not yet entered into legal force, because the deadline for appeal has not expired. One of them is Babashov’s case, another is a suit of the Ministry of Justice against the Rotenbergs, Skorobogatko and Ponomarenko to recover from the state the share of the companies they controlled that own the Kiev shopping center Ocean Plaza, and the third is about the transfer to state ownership of enterprises owned by the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
The next hearing in the Deripaska case, where the appeal will be heard, according to the head of the Justice Department’s sanctions policy department, is set for April 12.
“I’m not satisfied with the end of the week, although objectively I understood that the appeal on Deripaska will be even more difficult than the first instance, but well, very much on the timing. We’re hanging in there and working on it,” Rich wrote.
