The singer Olga Buzova was sued for one million euros by the company – the distributor of alcoholic beverages “Global Wine Distribution”. This was reported by the United Press Service of the Courts of St. Petersburg in its telegram channel. We are talking about compensation for the damage caused to Buzov’s company and the music label Archer Music Productions, which represents its interests. The lawsuit was allegedly registered at the place of residence of the singer – in the Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg.
A few years ago, wine merchants agreed with Archer Music to sell a wine drink named Buzova. According to the representative of the plaintiff, Global Wine Distribution entered into a license agreement for the use of the trademark, and Archer Music Productions undertook, at the expense of its remuneration, to provide advertising support for the promotion of goods and services sold under the trademark, to conclude an agreement with Buzova on the promotion of alcoholic products, using its name and image in the media.
Even then, the press wrote that the idea had failed, the wine drink was selling poorly, and as a result, in April 2020, Buzova withdrew her consent to the use of her images and name on the bottles. The alcohol distributor allegedly had to withdraw from the sale the batches of the drink received at retail and deal with expensive disposal.
The company, as expected, went to court and asked to recover 1,150,000 euros from the defendants against the losses incurred and the costs of disposing of products in the amount of another 1.6 million rubles.
The relevant documents are not yet available on the court’s website, but Life found another lawsuit from wine merchants, registered on April 5 this year in the Moscow Arbitration Court. The defendants are the same Olga Buzova and Archer Music. The amount of the claim is 1.15 million rubles. In total, if we convert euros into rubles and add other claims, it turns out that Buzova and her partner Archer Music owe the distributor 106.5 million rubles.
Who is Yuri Glotser and how is Buzova connected with his family
Global Wine Distribution is a company owned by the family of a banker, former head of the BFG-Credit Bank and simply an authoritative businessman, Yuri Glotser. In 2016, after a “hole” of 47.5 billion rubles was noticed in the bank, the Central Bank deprived BFG-Credit of its license, and a criminal case was opened against Glotser for embezzlement. At the same time, the banker went on the run and is now allegedly hiding in Ukraine. According to media reports, there he could receive political asylum in 2021.
Global Vine was founded by the youngest son of a scandalous banker, Mark Glotzer. He was born in Cologne in 1993 and is better known abroad than in Russia. The 30-year-old millionaire in the West had the glory of a playboy and womanizer. It is known that he was close friends with the former participants of the television project “Dom-2” Victoria Bonya, who even tried to marry him on her Instagram * in 2013, and … Olga Buzova.
Why did the Germans sue Glotzer’s firm?
Global Wine Distribution was formerly known as BFG Distribution. A company officially registered in 2016 has been unprofitable throughout its existence. In 2021, its net profit went negative by as much as 122 million rubles.
A few days after the termination of the contract with Olga Buzova, the wine merchants, in turn, terminated the contract with their European supplier, Cheers Beverage Distribution GmbH. This Berlin-based German firm has its roots, oddly enough, in Cologne. Its founders are Mark Glotser’s countrymen Daniel Dmitryuk and Jonathan Gutkin. Both, along with their relatives, are friends with Mark on Facebook*.
Having received a notice of termination of the contract, the Germans immediately applied to the Arbitration Court of the North Caucasus District and filed a lawsuit against Global Wine for 4.3 million euros for non-fulfillment of the volume of the order, refusal to further fulfill obligations and for termination of the contract. After a year-long legal battle, the court ordered the Russian distributor to pay a fine of only 200,000 euros to the Germans. At the current exchange rate, this is 18 million rubles – 6 times less than the wine merchants demand from Buzova.
