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Regarding the Judgment of the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan (the Russian Federation)

On November 3, 2022, the mass media spread the judgment of the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan (the Russian Federation) regarding the arrest in absentia of Oleksandr Yaroslavskyi, Owner and President of DCH.

In February 2021, the High Court of Justice in London already issued a verdict on the case referred to in this judgment and rejected the claim of the Russian company Tatneft against the Ukrainian businessmen according to the results of a comprehensive five-year (2016–2021) and thorough investigation. Currently, Tatneft has no legal grounds for any claims against the defendants.

Accordingly, the judgment of the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan (the Russian Federation) has to be considered exclusively as illegal persecution driven by the current political situation rather than a legal position.

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On November 3, 2022, the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan (the Russian Federation) passed judgment on the arrest in absentia of Oleksandr Yaroslavskyi and Pavlo Ovcharenko, Chairman of the Board of PJSC Ukrtatnafta.

To recap, on November 1, 2018, Oleksandr Yaroslavskyi hit the list of persons against whom Russia’s government imposed personal sanctions.

On February 24, 2021, the High Court of Justice in London rejected the claim of the Russian company Tatneft against the Ukrainian businessmen.

According to the State Bureau of Investigation, the Ukrainian assets of the Russian company Tatneft have been seized on suspicion of financing actions committed with the aim of violent change or overthrow of an existing government, seizure of state power, or change of the territory or state border of Ukraine (Part 3 of Article 110-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).