Renaissance Credit filed a lawsuit to recover more than 80 million rubles from MegaFon and the SMS aggregator Loading. Litigation between bankers and operators.
According to Vedomosti with reference to the data of the arbitration case, in March, Renaissance Credit, owned by the Onexim group of Mikhail Prokhorov, filed a lawsuit with the Moscow Arbitration Court to recover more than 80 million rubles from MegaFon and the SMS aggregator Loading. . What is the essence of the bank's claims against the operator and aggregator is not indicated in the court materials. We are talking about compensation for losses caused by a unilateral increase in the bank's tariffs for sending SMS, a Renaissance Credit representative said, although he did not disclose the details of the complaint.
Megafon did not comment on the proceedings.
The lawsuit against MegaFon is similar to the lawsuit that Tinkoff Bank filed against MTS at the end of March, said Andrei Yemelin, chairman of the National Council for Financial Markets. From the file of arbitration cases it follows that the bank intends to demand a little more than a billion rubles from the largest Russian operator. The action is connected with the resolution of the Federal Antimonopoly Service against operators who abused the high price of the monopoly on SMS messaging services.
Recall that mailing prices began to rise in early 2018, after the government forced lenders to inform borrowers about their debts and the remaining credit limit after each transaction. Thus, the cost of information via SMS has approximately doubled. The FAS sued the operators and already in mid-2018 demanded that the tariffs be equalized. MTS, VimpelCom, Megafon and Tele2 tried to challenge the decision of the FAS, but only Megafon was able to win the case in the first instance, and then defended its position on appeal. However, the court of cassation overturned the decision of the court. MTS went further, trying to appeal the FAS decision to the Supreme Court at the end of 2020. But, as can be seen from the materials of the arbitration case, at the end of December the court refused to consider this complaint.
Litigation between bankers and operators was commented by Elizaveta Razina, senior lawyer at the law firm Vetrov and Partners.
We have previously commented on a similar case and perhaps they are even more similar than it seems, based on the materials of the publication. Nevertheless, the news once again confirms that banks and other customers of mobile operators, who were affected by increased tariffs, will recover their losses. This can lead to a deterioration in the financial position of the mobile operators themselves, to improve the position of customers.
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