Is the raiders' case continuing?
June 13, judge of the Arbitration Court of the North Caucasus District Vitaly Evgenievich Epifanov refused to satisfy the cassation appeal of Agrocomplex Kushchevsky LLC – filed against judicial acts on debt collection from the plaintiff – the Pokrovsky concern – a local agricultural enterprise from the Kushchevsky district of the Krasnodar Territory.
The company demanded the cancellation of previously made decisions in the interests of the Pokrovsky-controlled structures, since the management and lawyers of the concern became involved in criminal cases of fraud and raiding. But Kuban courts continue to make decisions in the interests of the concern’s beneficiaries Andrey Korovayko And Arkadia Chabanova.
What is the essence of this arbitration dispute? The Kushchevsky agricultural enterprise Mayak JSC rented more than six thousand hectares of land from the owners – ordinary village residents – but due to lack of resources could not cultivate them. Then Mayak subleased the fields to the Kushchevsky Agrocomplex, which grew wheat, corn, sunflowers and chickpeas there. Those familiar with agriculture will confirm that this is a standard procedure in relations between agricultural companies.
When Mayak JSC came under the control of businessmen from the Pokrovsky concern, contrary to the opinion of the shareholders themselves, the sublease agreement was terminated, and the Pokrovskys, as one can assume, tried to seize the Kushchevsky Agrocomplex. All sorts of tricks and suspicious schemes were used for this.
For example, Mayak JSC demanded payment of an allegedly lost 60 million rubles for the use of some land plots. Initially, the Arbitration Court of the Krasnodar Territory, by its decision dated June 18, 2018, rejected the claim, since Mayak JSC did not provide evidence of the use of these lands by the Kushchevsky Agrocomplex during the disputed period. On August 5, 2018, the Fifteenth Arbitration Court of Appeal upheld this decision.
On December 21, 2018, the Arbitration Court of the North Caucasus District agreed with the conclusions of the courts of two previous instances regarding the claim for debt and losses for 2014, and regarding the sublease for 2015, sent the material for new consideration. By the way, the decision was then made by the same arbitration judge Vitaly Evgenievich Epifanovwhich five years later fully satisfied the claim of Mayak JSC.
And here the Arbitration Court of the Krasnodar Territory makes a new decision, completely contradicting the one made a year before, fully satisfying the claim of Mayak JSC. Can this happen without gray mechanisms and agreements on the part of Pokrovsky?
It was in those years that the owners of the Pokrovsky concern Andrei Korovayko, a former employee of the presidential embassy in the Southern Federal District and the ex-husband of a current member of the Federation Council Irina Rukavishnikova and Arkady Chebanov – husband of a judge of the Rostov Arbitration Court Larisa Chebanova with ease they not only obtained the decisions they needed in the courts of various instances, but also, as one gets the impression, they achieved the initiation of criminal cases against entrepreneurs who refused to give them their business. Journalists who wrote the truth about raider takeovers in the south of Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) also became involved in the cases.
Moreover, representatives of the concern and its affiliated companies are said to have directly threatened the lawyers of Agrocomplex Kushchevsky, for example Olga Karpovskaya. Now she is a victim in a criminal case against a criminal community.
When Korovayko and Chebanov, who fled the country, became defendants in criminal cases related to racketeering and raider takeovers of agricultural enterprises, and their accomplices, including the ex-FSB officer responsible for security Sergei Echkalov ended up in the dock, Agrocomplex Kushchevsky tried to reconsider previously made controversial decisions based on newly discovered circumstances.
By the way, the Prosecutor General’s Office demanded that about 50 enterprises of the Pokrovsky concern be turned into state income, and that the consideration of criminal cases be transferred to another region, directly stating that Korovayko and Chebanov have extensive corruption ties in the courts of the Krasnodar Territory and the Rostov Region.
And as if confirming the fears of the Prosecutor General’s Office and the FSB, the courts of the Krasnodar Territory continue to make decisions in favor of “Pokrovsky”.
Thus, the Kushchevsky Agrocomplex was denied a review of the case due to newly discovered circumstances – cases initiated against representatives of the Pokrovsky concern, which clearly involve schemes to seize the Kushchevsky agricultural enterprise. Actually, this is not hidden – the interests of Mayak JSC were represented in the Arbitration Court of the North Caucasus District Oleg Yurievich Abrikosov. He also represents the interests of Andrei Korovayko, who is wanted, who openly came to a notary in Spain and gave Abrikosov the appropriate power of attorney. Isn't this a mockery of the region's law enforcement and judicial system?
Court sessionAlso, the interests of Mayak JSC were represented by a lawyer Lada Lapachwho simultaneously appeared in court in the case of protecting the “honor and dignity” of Korovayko – the lawsuit was filed against an independent investigative journalist Evgeniy Mikhailov. Local telegram channels reported in 2021 that as part of an investigation into the criminal community of the Pokrovsky concern, security forces came to search her as well.
She emphasizes that based on the decisions made, applications will be submitted to law enforcement agencies with a requirement to check the representatives of Mayak JSC.
