The court rejected the Director of JSC "Kirov Plant" in defamation lawsuit

The corresponding definition has issued 11 August, but earlier on there were not reported. Semenenko, insisted on refuting information published on the Internet in April, where, in particular, argued that the General Director of "Kirov Plant" gained control over 35% of the company (in particular, by endorsing a number of transactions in shares of the company and its "daughters" .) The relevant article was signed by anonymous shareholders, "Kirov Plant". "In fact, stating the requirements of a refutation of false information, defamatory, distributors, whose identify is not possible, the applicants appealed to the Court of Arbitration (demanding) to establish a legal fact (ie the establishment, was an insult or not)," – noted in the materials arbitration. The court refused to consider Semenenko statements on the basis of what is now regarded as a claim of minority shareholders, "Kirov Plant" to the company's CEO, demanding recovery of damages to $ 21.8 billion rubles, caused a number of transactions in shares of the company and its subsidiaries concluded in 2005. Because, according to the arbitration, the impugned article on the Internet related to this litigation, the applicant's claims relate to a dispute about the law. "According to part 3 of Article 217 of the APC, if in a case of establishing the facts of legal significance, it turns out that the dispute on the law, the arbitral tribunal a statement of reserves establishing the facts of legal significance, without consideration" – is explained in determining the arbitration Petersburg. As previously reported by Itar in July, the Federal Arbitration Court of the Northwest District has sent back for retrial in the district court lawsuit Homeland Olga, Igor Ustinov, JSC "Registroniks" and CJSC "Atomstroyinvest" (minority shareholders of JSC "Kirov Plant") to recover from Semenenko in favor of 21.8 billion rubles of the plant damage caused by a number of transactions in shares of JSC "Kirov Plant" and its subsidiaries. JSC "Kirov Plant" was founded in 1992, produces tractors and other agricultural machinery products, spare parts, metal, power engineering products. Production is concentrated in the historic industrial site Putilov the south-west of St. Petersburg. Currently, the Kirov factory – the managing company of a group of 37 subsidiaries, which produce metals, machinery and other products, some types of energy and providing services to industrial and non-industrial nature. All Regional News