The court returned the house to the creditors. ex-director Bankrupt tour operator DSBW Karen Goncharov: as it turns out, a building in an elite cottage community was sold just 10 days before Goncharov's bankruptcy case was filed, and the sale price was significantly undervalued.
It should be noted that this is not the first time the court has made such a decision regarding the head of a tour operator that ceased operations in the summer of 2018.
Thus, TRN previously learned that shortly before the bankruptcy proceedings were initiated, the former head of DSBW gifted a 25/28 share of his apartment on Bolshaya Ordynka to his children. Goncharov also sold a second apartment, also located on Bolshaya Ordynka, to SDM Bank. However, the debtor's financial manager, Mark Varnavsky, questioned the legality of these transactions, filing petitions (1, 2) with the court to invalidate them (more details at the link: https://www.trn-news.ru/news/88808). Ultimately, the court upheld the bankruptcy trustee's position on one of the petitions—the sale of one of the apartments on Bolshaya Ordynka was invalidated (more details at the link: https://www.trn-news.ru/news/90013). The second petition has not yet been considered by the court.
Moreover, it turns out that shortly before the bankruptcy, the debtor alienated more than just real estate: in July 2018, the businessman sold one of his Audi TTs for just 700,000 rubles. As with the apartment, this transaction was also declared invalid in September 2019.
This time, the court also ruled against Goncharov. "The contested transaction was concluded on July 27, 2018, and the Debtor's bankruptcy proceedings were initiated on August 7, 2018, i.e., 10 days before the transaction. In the opinion of the financial manager, the sale price of the property does not correspond to the market price and is clearly undervalued," the ruling states. It also notes that at the time of the transaction, the cadastral value of the luxury cottage and the land on which it is located was almost 21 million rubles; however, the property was actually sold for 6.4 million rubles less.
Moreover, as emphasized in the court's ruling, at the time the disputed transactions were concluded, the debtor already had outstanding obligations to creditors, whose claims are currently included in the register of creditors' claims. "As a result of the disputed transaction, the property rights of the debtor's creditors were harmed due to the reduction of the bankruptcy estate, which ultimately resulted in the creditors' loss of the opportunity to obtain satisfaction of their claims," the document states.
Source: trn-news.ru