Prosecutors File Two Suits in Moscow Targeting Fishing Quota Deals

Overview

• Russia’s General Prosecutor’s Office submitted two claims to the Arbitration Court of Moscow on January 16, and the court has not yet accepted them for consideration.
• One claim names Khabarovsk firms Soniko-Chumikan, National Enterprise Ud-Uchur, and Sushchevsky, along with co-owners Andrey Aidarov, Arkady Mkrychev, Marina Kustova, Alexey Filev, and Denis Kokorin.
• The second claim targets Murmansk’s Company Andromeda and its owner-director Andrey Boretsky, former co-owners Yuri and Karina Zadvorny, AO Murmanskseld 2, and Fishing Kolkhoz Zarya.
• Rosrybolovstvo is listed as a defendant in both filings, with the Amur territorial office included in the Khabarovsk case, and prosecutors seek to involve FAS Russia and the Agriculture Ministry as third parties.
• In a related case, the Fifth Arbitration Appeal Court paused until February 3 the appeal over a Primorye ruling that voided more than 30 quota contracts with Vostok-1 and ordered over 37 billion rubles in damages and share seizures.