Enterprises intend to compensate for the seized property in the Crimea.
More than a dozen Ukrainian companies that were in the past related to Igor Kolomoisky, filed a petition with the US Federal District Court in the District of Columbia with a request to confirm the arbitration award against Russia in favor of these companies for $ 35 million. Russian assets. Kolomoisky himself is on the sanctions list.
It is noted that the consideration of Kolomoisky's structures against Russia in international arbitration is one of a number of similar cases in which Ukrainian plaintiffs claim their loss of assets in Crimea and Sevastopol as a result of accession. peninsula to Russia in 2014.
In 2019, an arbitration tribunal in Switzerland ruled that Russia had violated an investment protection agreement and awarded the plaintiffs $ 34.6 million in damages. but to no avail. Kolomoisky, who is himself under US sanctions, expects that the funds can be obtained from Russia's assets frozen by Washington.
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Earlier it was reported that Ukraine must urgently demand the seizure of frozen assets of Russia , as it may be late.
