Uitspraak
RECHTBANK AMSTERDAM
1.De procedure
- de dagvaarding van 23 december 2016, met producties,
- de conclusie van antwoord van 20 september 2017, met producties,
- het tussenvonnis van 24 januari 2018, waarbij ambtshalve een comparitie van partijen is bepaald;
- het proces-verbaal van comparitie van 24 april 2018 en de daarin vermelde stukken;
- de brief van 9 mei 2018 van mr. G.J.M. Verburg, advocaat te Amsterdam, namens mr. Ouwehand;
- de brief van 9 mei 2018 van mr. M. Malycha, advocaat te Amsterdam, namens
- de brief van 11 mei 2018 van mr. Verburg namens mr. Ouwehand.
2.De feiten
Share Purchase Agreementvan 20 augustus 2007 heeft Rebgun q.q. de aandelen Yukos Finance verkocht aan Promneftstroy. Deze
agreement(hierna: de koopovereenkomst) luidt, voor zover hier van belang:
8.Term and termination
onttrekking aan) of the Shares from the Admitted Dutch Creditors Attachments. The Parties believe that the contemplated transfer of the Shares under this Agreement is not an evasion of the Shares, since (i) the Admitted Dutch Creditors Attachments as made by the Bailiff remain in full force and effect and (ii) the rights of the Admitted Dutch Creditors in relation to the Shares and the Attachments will be respected in full as stipulated in article 474e DCCP and (iii) the Shares will continue to be in the Netherlands in the place of the registered seat of Yukos Finance and (iv) Yukos Finance will upon notice of the transfer be instructed to enter the transfer in the shareholders’ register such that it is subject to the Admitted Dutch Creditors Attachments and (v) the transfer of the Shares will be served by means of a notice thereof to Yukos Finance (by a bailiff), which notice will explicitly clarify the unaffected continuation of the Admitted Dutch Creditor Attachments, and (vi) a copy of this Agreement and of the Deed of Transfer and of this notice shall be submitted to the Amsterdam Court in the Executory Sales Proceedings and to the Bailiff, and (vii) the value or number of the Shares will not decrease as a result of this Agreement or of the Deed of Transfer.
17.Governing law and Jurisdiction
Deed of Transfer of the Shares subject to the Attachments and of the Rights(hierna: de leveringsakte) luidt, voor zover hier van belang:
onttrekken aan het beslag) the Shares.
onttrekken aan het beslag):
8.3 It is the Parties’ explicit desire and intent that transfer of the Shares that will be made in the Deed of Transfer shall not be determined as an evasion (onttrekking aan) of the Shares from the Admitted Dutch Creditors Attachments. The Parties believe that the contemplated transfer of the Shares under this Agreement is not an evasion of the Shares, since (i) the Admitted Dutch Creditors Attachments as made by the Bailiff remain in full force and effect and (ii) the rights of the Admitted Dutch Creditors in relation to the Shares and the Attachments will be respected in full as stipulated in article 474e DCCP and (iii) the Shares will continue to be in the Netherlands in the place of the registered seat of Yukos Finance and (iv) Yukos Finance will upon notice of the transfer be instructed to enter the transfer in the shareholders’ register such that it is subject to the Admitted Dutch Creditors Attachments and (v) the transfer of the Shares will be served by means of a notice thereof to Yukos Finance (by a bailiff), which notice will explicitly clarify the unaffected continuation of the Admitted Dutch Creditor Attachments, and (vi) a copy of this Agreement and of the Deed of Transfer and of this notice shall be submitted to the Amsterdam Court in the Executory Sales Proceedings and to the Bailiff, and (vii) the value or number of the Shares will not decrease as a result of this Agreement or of the Deed of Transfer.”
3.Het geschil
4.De beoordeling
final decisionvan een
Dutch competent court(waarin Promneftstroy “is or may be a party”) de overdracht van de aandelen Yukos Finance “must be regarded as an evasion of the Shares”. Niet in geschil is dat
evasionstaat voor onttrekking aan beslag in de zin van artikel 198 lid 1 Wetboek van Strafrecht (Sr).
Admitted Dutch Creditors Attachmentsvallen, maar ook de niet onder die definitie vallende door FPH en Yukos Capital gelegde beslagen.
(a) Zij worden al vele jaren gedwongen tegen Promneftstroy te procederen, omdat Promneftstroy de vorderingen betwist waarvoor de beslagen zijn gelegd. Bovendien probeert Promneftstroy de betrokken procedures met allerlei incidenten te vertragen en het debat zo ingewikkeld mogelijk te maken;
(c) Promneftstroy kan als aandeelhouder het bestuur van Yukos Finance vervangen, met mogelijk negatieve gevolgen voor de waarde van de onderneming van Yukos Finance.
EUR 618,00 aan griffierecht en EUR 1.086,00 aan salaris advocaat (twee punten, tarief II), in totaal EUR 1.704,00. De gevorderde wettelijke rente zal worden toegewezen zoals hierna in de beslissing zal worden vermeld. De nakosten zullen ambtshalve worden toegewezen zoals hierna in de beslissing zal worden vermeld.
5.De beslissing
mr. M.C.H. Broesterhuizen, rechters, bijgestaan door mr. A.A.J. Wissink, griffier, en in het openbaar uitgesproken op 6 juni 2018.