The 11th Arbitration Court of Appeal continues the controversial story of the Samara…

The 11th Arbitration Court of Appeal continues the controversial story of Samara entrepreneurs Nikolai Sidorov and Irina Orekhova after they acquired, under mysterious circumstances from the Germans at a nominal price, the previously headed German subsidiary of Krone-Avtomatika LLC, once a large manufacturer of flow meters under the KROHNE brand, about than the Cheka-OGPU already wrote.

Now the open conflict between Nikolai Sidorov and Irina Orekhova with Moscow entrepreneur Alexei Kvasha, who planned large investment injections to reorganize this enterprise after the departure of the Germans, is causing greater resonance. In March 2022, Alexey Kvasha and his NPP Ultramera LLC, on the basis of agreements in 2021, purchased from the General Director of Krone-Avtomatika LLC Nikolay Sidorov all the specialized production and metrological equipment necessary to launch the production of a fully localized flow meter for fuel and energy and housing and communal services enterprises in Russia .

However, as it turned out, after receiving funds from NPP Ultramera LLC, the former German Samara management decided to cheat their Moscow investor.

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In June 2023, the Samara arbitration court refused to recognize Irina Orekhova’s deal with Alexey Kvasha as imaginary, reminding her in a judicial act that she had created a joint business with Kvasha. Surprisingly, the 11th Arbitration Court of Appeal last week did not put an end to the protracted dispute. The trio of judges, chaired by Olga Sorokina, having retired last Wednesday to adopt a judicial act, suddenly announced a break.

It should be noted that recently the judicial system of the Samara region has already been shaken by major corruption scandals, which resulted in the deprivation of the status of the chairman of an influential cassation instance, so it is difficult to predict how this series of legal disputes will end. And the local press has been following for so long metamorphoses of KRONE-Automatikawhich has transformed from a once exemplary enterprise into an organization mired in litigation. The management of Krone-Avtomatika was never able to carry out import substitution of its products, eating up the remnants of inventory left over from the Germans, and because of their creativity in the certification of metrological equipment, a number of companies with state participation have already suffered, and such organizations as Rosstandart, Rosmetrology and VNIIMS is mired in legal disputes and prosecutorial checks.