Banker Vladimir Antonov, the former owner of the nationalized Lithuanian Bank Snoras, has submitted to arbitration court of Moscow the claim to the Republic of Lithuania (represented by its Ministry of justice) for the recovery of over 40 billion rubles. On Monday, August 15, RIA Novosti reported.
Of this amount, 20.2 billion rubles have for property damage, and about 19.9 billion — the damage to business reputation.
In addition, plaintiff asks to recognize untrue the information disseminated, as stated in the court ruling, the President of the Republic of Lithuania and published in 2011 a number of Russian and Lithuanian electronic media. We are talking about the words of Dalia Grybauskaite criticized the activity of the management of Snoras prior to its nationalization.
Preliminary hearings are scheduled for September 22. The lawsuit was filed 5 August and 12 August, the arbitration on the application of Antonov took security measures. In particular, bodies of Federal registration service was denied registration procedure with the 16 non-residential buildings in Moscow and the Moscow region and several other properties owned by Snoras.
The decision to nationalize the Bank, the balance of which revealed a hole in a billion litas (361 million dollars), the government of Lithuania adopted in November 2011. In December, the credit institution declared bankrupt, and in August 2012, eliminated.
Antonov and his partner Raimondas Baranauskas lived in the UK, and the Lithuanian government tried to get them extradited. The decision on extradition was taken by the Metropolitan court in early 2014, but Antonov fled from British justice, and a year later appeared in Russia.
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