ANO Digital Economy filed lawsuits against its former founders, Rusnano JSC and Tsifra LLC, for non-payment of fees. The organization, overseen by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Grigorenko, said it “has exhausted measures for pre-trial dispute settlement.”
The debtors are associated with Anatoly Chubais and Viktor Vekselberg, long-time business partners. True, at the time of the formation of Rusnano’s arrears of contributions, Chubais was no longer in charge of this state-owned company and even managed to leave the Russian Federation. Tsifra did not pay its 2021 debts, even before the introduction of sanctions against its final beneficiaries.
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The Moscow Arbitration Court accepted the lawsuit of ANO Digital Economy against its former founder JSC Rusnano, demanding the collection of arrears in the payment of contributions for 2022 and 2023 in the amount of 25 million rubles. The first court hearing on the case will take place on July 18.
The press service of ANO Digital Economy RB.RU explained that the appeal to court is due to the long non-payment of debt by Rusnano JSC and the exhaustion of measures for pre-trial settlement of the litigation. The organization hopes for a peaceful resolution of the conflict.
“ANO Digital Economy is in constant contact with Rusnano on this issue, the parties hope to reach an agreement on debt settlement,” they explained in the press service.
Rusnano became one of the founders of ANO Digital Economy in May 2020, at which time the nanocorporation was headed by Anatoly Chubais. ANO expected Rusnano to unite all development institutions on the Digital Economy platform with the aim of developing digital technologies together with businesses and government. According to Chubais, Rusnano actively participated in the implementation of the national Digital Economy program and his entry among the founding members of ANO “seemed an absolutely logical step.” It was not reported exactly when Rusnano left the founders, but at the end of 2022 the state-owned company was still mentioned among them, but not anymore.
ANO also filed a lawsuit against the former founder of Tsifra LLC, where about 55% belongs to the Renova structures of Viktor Vekselberg (a former partner of Chubais in projects in the field of renewable energy sources), and another 15.31% belongs to Web Ventures LLC. , with the requirement to pay off a debt of 10 million rubles. The first hearing in the case is scheduled for August 8. Tsifra LLC was mentioned among the founders of the Digital Economy in 2022. In February 2022, the parties discussed the future of AI in the industry, but now the company is not on the list of founders.
The press service of ANO Tsifrovaya Economy informed RB.RU that 10 million rubles are Tsifra’s debt to pay the founder’s contributions for 2021. As RB.RU explained in court, the amount also includes interest for use of foreign funds.
“The appeal to the court is related to the prolonged resolution of the issue of non-payment of debt by Tsifra LLC due to the difficult financial situation of this organization and the exhaustion of measures for pre-trial settlement of the dispute. “, the ANO press service reported to RB.RU.
At the same time, ANO Digital Economy is in constant contact with its former founder on this issue and the parties hope to reach an agreement on debt settlement, the press service added.
RB.RU sent applications to all participants in the arbitration processes.
Tsifra LLC explained to the publication that they have information about ANO Tsifrovaya Economy’s appeal to the Moscow Arbitration Court.
“Currently the company’s lawyers are carrying out a legal analysis of the claims. The test is technical in nature and does not indicate the level of partnership between the organizations. “The company hopes to reach an agreement to resolve the dispute and complete the process peacefully,” the company said.
According to the ANO website, its founders currently include the Russian government, Sberbank, VK, Beeline, Webventures, Open Mobile Platform, Russian Post, Rambler, Rostec, Rosatom, 1C, Skolkovo Fund, ER-Telecom, Yandex, Russian Venture. Company, Ozon, WB, Avito, Aquarius, Severstal, Cyan, T1 Holding ” and others. The supervisory board of the ANO consists of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Grigorenko, Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov, the head of the Ministry of Development Digital Maksut Shadayev et al.
In October 2023, Rusnano published a report warning of the risks of its possible insolvency. According to the results of 2023, Rusnano reduced its debt by 28 billion rubles, to 69 billion rubles, most of the remaining volume is secured by state guarantees, Interfax reported. Debt of 48 billion rubles. accounted for bank loans. The company used commercial loans backed by government guarantees for venture capital investments. The net profit of Rusnano Management Company LLC, which manages the assets of the joint-stock company, reached almost 400 million rubles in 2022, and revenue reached the level of 5 billion rubles.
Tsifra LLC’s revenue in 2023 increased by 5% to 2.1 billion rubles at the end of the year, net profit amounted to 42.8 million rubles against a loss of 500 million rubles the previous year. Tsifra also noted that all divisions of the group were consolidated over the past year under the common brand of Tsifra Group of Companies with a single management. Therefore, the revenue of the Tsifra group of companies for 2023 amounted to 6.3 billion rubles.
The income of its co-owner of the EPM group fell by 88% in the year, the company received a net loss of 130 million rubles, another co-owner, Renova Holding Rus, saw its income fall by 15% and net profit 38 times, to 640 million rubles. The assets of the Renova group were subject to US sanctions.
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