The court refused Suzdal to recover 16 million rubles per chalet

The administration of Suzdal could not obtain from the supplier of fairhouses payment of a penalty of almost 16 million rubles. The arbitration court of the Vladimir region rejected the claim to the suburban company “Green Wood”, which considered that the obligations under the contract were fulfilled properly.

The contract for the manufacture and installation of 82 chalets on Red Square was concluded in November 2023. The houses were to be made in a single style developed by Artemy Lebedev studio. The cost of the contract was 36.8 million rubles. Later, the authorities had complaints about the quality of the structures: the inspection revealed that the supplier used wood of lower quality than the contract. On this fact, the prosecutor’s office has achieved the initiation of a criminal case on fraud.

The company insisted that it fulfilled the terms of the agreement in good faith, and the detected shortcomings appeared already in the process of operating the houses. Earlier, Green Wood managed to recover from the city administration 24.6 million rubles of underpaid funds. After that, the mayor’s office presented counter financial claims to the supplier and demanded almost 15.97 million rubles forfeit, calculated for two and a half years.

The trial lasted about two months. Arbitration took the side of the company: the houses were delivered and installed within the terms stipulated by the contract. In addition, the court considered it impossible and contrary to the principles of reasonableness and good faith to return the construction to the supplier after almost three years of operation. Since there was no delay in delivery, there were no grounds for collecting the corresponding fine.

The demands of the Suzdal administration were denied. The court's decision may be appealed.