Naftogaz's subsidiary asking court to declare Energomashspetsstal bankrupt
Gaz Ukrainy subsidiary of national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrainy has filed a claim to court seeking to declare bankrupt public joint-stock company Energomashspetsstal (EMSS, Kramatorsk, Donetsk region), the owner of which is Russia's Atomenergomash of Rosatom Corporation.
According to information of the business court in Donetsk region, the claim was registered on August 3, 2017. The jury has been appointed.
The details of the claim are not specified.
According to the unified register of court rulings, Gaz Ukrainy is involved in litigation with Energomashspetsstal, seeking to collect UAH 12.8 million of debt.
In addition, Naftogaz Ukrainy is trying to collect around UAH 158 million of debt for natural gas supplied in 2013 from the enterprise (including UAH 119.6 million of the principal of the debt).
On June 29, 2017, the business court in Zaporizhia region suspended hearing of the case, seeing the signs of crime (the signing of the addendum by an unknown person on behalf of Naftogaz Ukrainy) and sent some materials of the case to the Chief Department of the National Police of Kyiv to investigate this.
Energomashspetsstal is the largest Ukrainian producer of special cast and forged products for individual and small-scale production for metallurgy, shipbuilding, energy (wind, steam, hydro, nuclear) and general engineering. It has been part of the mechanical engineering division of Rosatom since 2010.
