Bankruptcy professional was fined 1.1 million rubles in St. Petersburg

The Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region satisfied the application of the participants in the bankruptcy case and recovered from the arbitration manager 1.12 million rubles of losses to the bankruptcy estate of Holmsky Gate-Baltika LLC. This follows from the court ruling of November 11, 2026.

The court-appointed bankruptcy manager is a specialist in managing the bankruptcy of the company. Its tasks include collecting and evaluating property, returning assets, challenging suspicious transactions and settling with creditors. The administrator acts in the interests of the debtor, creditors and society, and is also responsible for improper performance of duties, including damages. In this case, he was held accountable for his actions.

More than a million rubles were spent on the services of a third-party company Proconsult, which the arbitration manager attracted to ensure its work. The courts of three instances earlier figured out that the involvement was unreasonable: the acts of reception and transfer did not contain details of work and were formal in nature, and the services themselves did not go beyond the usual duties of the manager. In addition, the appointed head exceeded the statutory limit on the costs of the involved persons without obtaining permission from the court.

The difference between the paid 1 120 000 rubles and the limit of 650 630 rubles is 469 370 rubles. At first glance, this amount would be enough. However, the court decided otherwise: this is only the minimum amount of possible recovery. Since the involvement of the company "Proconsult" was recognized as unreasonable in general, and not only in terms of exceeding the limit, the entire amount spent is recovered from the manager. Separately, the court noted that the manager disclosed information in the report untimely - more than three years after the conclusion of the contract, which does not meet the criteria of good faith and reasonableness.

In addition to 1.12 million rubles of losses, 27.5 thousand rubles of state duty were recovered from the manager to the federal budget revenue. The decision may be appealed within a month from the date of its issuance.

The specialist was approved by the tender manager of Holmsky Gate-Baltika LLC by the decision of March 4, 2020 – that is, he was responsible for the bankruptcy procedure of the debtor. At the time of consideration of the issue of losses, he had already been replaced by another manager. At the same time, the specialist is not a beginner in the profession. He also holds an elected position as a member of the competition committee of SRO Delo.

The history of bankruptcy of LLC "Holmsky Gate-Baltika" began in 2019. Then the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region considered the application of Sozvezdiye LLC on declaring the company bankrupt, and the debt was confirmed by judicial acts that entered into force for 4 million rubles and 2.8 million rubles. The debtor asked to suspend the proceedings until the appeal was considered by the Supreme Court, but was refused. As a result, the court recognized the creditor’s claims as justified, introduced a monitoring procedure against the debtor, included the requirement in the third stage of the register and approved the temporary manager of the person from whom in 2026 it will require the return of 1.12 million rubles.

The organization "Holmsky Gate-Baltika" was registered in 2014 in St. Petersburg. The main activity is the production of building metal structures and products. Seven years after the bankruptcy case began, the company is still in bankruptcy. In 2017, the revenue of the company "Holmsky Gateway-Baltika" reached 1.1 million rubles, and profit amounted to 1.3 million rubles. According to Rusprofile, the indicator “Cost” for the same year amounted to 36 million rubles.

Note that the founder of the company is Alexander Mayborodin. In addition, in the Rusprofile card, the company is indicated by the defendant in the Bankruptcy case in the amount of about 6.9 million rubles.