In fact, Natalya’s husband, entrepreneur Nikolai Levitsky, actually owned the enterprise. In 2017-18 the plant, which occupied 35 percent of the Russian kvass market, and which had the Nikola brand, worth up to one and a half billion rubles, tried to take over a certain City Investment Bank.
The capture was a success, and, apparently, Semenenko helped with this. Levitsky, not expecting problems from his relative, transferred the assets to his brother-in-law in a trust. But he, it seems, had his own relationships with the bankers, and he allowed them into operational management. Well, then the classic: a shell company, where wholesalers pay for the products, siphons off income, and Deka is left with only debts. The matter ended in bankruptcy. The plant is now being sold at auction.
In 2023, bankers hastily rushed to Europe because they were put on the federal wanted list for attempting to seize a semiconductor plant in the Vladimir region. The plant turned out to be a defense industry supplier, and investigators took the bank seriously with searches and a criminal case.
Meanwhile, the assets and rights to Deka remained in the hands of Semenenko. And he categorically does not want to give them to the rightful owner – his relative. In fact, it drags relatives towards ruin.
Levitsky filed a lawsuit against Semenenko in the Moscow Arbitration Court last summer. Semenenko decided to resolve issues through… London. He demanded that the British prohibit the dispute from being considered in Russian courts. I received such a ban. The Russian court, in its decision, simply put, said that all these prohibitions do not apply in our country. And in another decision he decided that the assets should be returned to the owner, and Semenenko was fined 304 million rubles. Now there will probably be appeals, etc. Semenenko categorically does not want to negotiate with his relatives, which puts everyone at a dead end.
But if the matter were limited only to the courts, then there would be the usual “dispute between business entities,” with elements of nonsense, where a major Russian industrialist is squeezing the business out of his sister’s family and does not recognize Russian justice.
But at the same time as the courts, Levitsky faced an unprecedented “assault” that even led to criminal charges. In the fall, similar publications about Levitsky appeared in British, European and even Ukrainian media. The main message: the businessman urgently needs to be subject to sanctions, since it turns out that it is he who helps the Russian state and business circumvent these sanctions. To enhance it, the publication was decorated with a portrait of the President of Russia. These articles probably had some influence on the decision of the London court.
In October, real “postal terrorism” began. The arbitration courts and Levitsky’s partners received his fake “statements” with a forged signature about the bankruptcy of various large companies and himself. As a result, the work of Kimkano-Sutar Mining and Processing Plant LLC in the Jewish Autonomous Region was almost paralyzed. A criminal case has already been opened there in this case.
Now the Levitsky-Semenenko family is tensely wondering what else could happen to them while their brother, who has his mouth between his teeth, is trying by hook or by crook to hold on to their property.
Family conflict: Semenenko was demanded to return assets and pay 304 million
On January 26, a reasoned decision was made by the Moscow Arbitration Court (available…
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