Legal.Report tracked extremely interesting case about the ex-general director and former co-owner of TPO Reserve LLC Semyon Lamdon. Back in 2019, he sold his stake in the company, retaining the honorary post of partner and the right to claim the creditor for 38.7 million rubles for Reserve’s debts to him personally. The new owner first cheated Lamdon with his salary, and then refused to pay off the company’s debts to the former owner.
While Lamdon was fighting for his money, the company was resold to third parties – the famous raider Tigran Tsaturyan, and in fact, rather his father-in-law Alexander Ambartsumyan (former deputy head of the urban planning policy department of the Moscow City Hall, and now the owner of the Monarch developer), who in response themselves decided to sue the owner of the year before in arbitration. And with counter demands tenfold! The three-year statute of limitations had long since expired – but judge ASGM Fortunatova was not embarrassed by this: she decided to recover from the defendant almost 350 million rubles for the damage he allegedly caused to Reserve many years ago (in some cases, more than 10 years!). How these 350 million rubles were formed is a story for a separate post about Tsaturyan and Judge Fortunatova.
We don’t dare to guess how much it might cost to “reset” the statute of limitations – but we suspect that this is an amount with a considerable number of zeros. We are waiting to see what the second instance will answer. On January 12, the “Lamdon case” is heard in the Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal, chaired by Judge Vadim Valiev. If the absurd decision of the ASGM stands, it will create an interesting practice in which any new business owner will be able to sue the previous one (or even the year before) regardless of the statute of limitations.
https://legal.report/delo-lamdona-na-poroge-opasnogo-preczedenta/
“The Lamdon Case”: on the verge of a dangerous precedent – legal.report
The decision in the case of design engineer Semyon Lamdon creates a dangerous precedent that makes it possible to increase the general statute of limitations in arbitration cases
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