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The Prosecutor General's Office demands to convert the assets of the largest Ukrainian alcohol company 'Bayadera Group' located in Russia into state revenue

2025.01.20

For this purpose, the agency filed a lawsuit in the Vologda region court demanding to recognize the company as 'extremist'

The lawsuit states that after the start of the war in Ukraine, the beneficiaries of LLC 'Bayadera Holding' decided to allocate part of their profits to finance the Armed Forces of Ukraine, therefore the prosecutor's office requests to recognize the activities of the parent company LLC 'Bayadera Holding', as well as its leaders Natalia Bondareva and Svyatoslav Nechitaylo and their asset manager in Russia Yuri Moklyak as 'extremist' and to ban them, converting into state revenue the shares and stakes of five enterprises under their control amounting to 9 billion rubles, reported 'Kommersant'.

The Prosecutor General's Office noted that after the start of the war, the 'Bayadera Group' holding and its owners 'took an anti-Russian position, launching a Russophobic campaign' to discredit the Russian army, as well as canceling the license for the production of vodka products in Belarus due to allied relations between this state and the Russian Federation. Moreover, in 2022, the owners decided to allocate part of the profits (amounting to 2%) from the sale of their companies' products to the needs of the Ukrainian army.

In December 2023, the Volzhsky City Court of the Volgograd region, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, seized the confectionery factory JSC 'Konti-Rus' in Kursk from the Ukrainian owners.

In February 2024, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Lipetsk, following an administrative lawsuit by the Prosecutor General's Office, recognized Petro Poroshenko as an 'extremist' and confiscated the Lipetsk asset — the confectionery factory of the Roshen corporation.

In March 2024, in Adygea, following a lawsuit by the Prosecutor General's Office, Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky and his business partner, former owner of Smolensky Bank Pavel Shitov, were recognized as 'extremists'. A number of enterprises were converted into Russian revenue, including the gas extraction LLC 'Yuzhgazenergi', a business center, and a house in the center of Moscow, almost 500 land plots in the Moscow region, Vladimir, Kaliningrad, and Smolensk regions.

In July 2024, the Tambov court converted the Russian assets of the international alcohol holding SPI Group of Yuri Shefler into state revenue, whose activities were recognized as extremist due to support for the armed forces of Ukraine. The court confiscated 72.87% of the shares of the Tambov distillery JSC 'Amber Talvis'.

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