According to the file of the Supreme Arbitration Court, the Mikhail Dvornikov investment company is going to clean up not only the saved pages of Yandex. From May to July 2011, the company filed 11 similar lawsuits, the defendants in which are, in particular, the Russian branch of Google, the online publications “Gazeta.ru”, “Lenta.ru”, the editorial office of Novaya Gazeta and even the website Gzt.ru, closed in early summer. So, the Savelovsky market case has been closed.
According to the Izvestia newspaper, EAA Asset Management-Consulting wants to redact all references to itself related to the Sunrise retailer that went bankrupt with a big scandal in 2009. In the media of that period, the investment company appears as the owner of real estate, which the chain rented for its stores. In particular, according to a number of publications, she owned the premises of the Sunrise hypermarket at the address: 1 Skladochnaya Street.
“Lenta.ru”, “Novaya Gazeta” and “Gazeta.ru”, “Izvestia” were told that the materials from the site can be removed only by a court decision. However, from the website of “Gazeta.ru” the note about the connection between EAA Asset Management-Consulting and Sunrise has already disappeared. The lawyer of the hosting company “Filanko”, a lawsuit against which the investment company filed at the end of June, and withdrew a month later, told Izvestia that the sites whose host was “Filanko” also removed information about the plaintiff after his appeal to the court. Yandex did not officially comment on the lawsuit.
Ivan Kidyaev, a lawyer at the Moscow Bar Association, explained that EAA Asset Management-Consulting would have to prove to the court the falsity of the information disseminated in 2009 by providing documents, audio recordings and other evidence. “Even if the company proves its case, it is unlikely that it will be possible to sue 100 million rubles,” the specialist is sure.
Two years ago, the Sunrise store chain found itself in a difficult financial situation, the total amount of the company’s debt to creditors and suppliers exceeded 700 million rubles. EAA Asset Management-Consulting in that story represented the interests of Emma Dvornikova, the mother of the former co-owner of the Savelovsky market Mikhail Dvornikov. Sunrise owed the woman about 80 million rubles. At the beginning of the summer of 2009, the ‘Austrian’ company announced that it had acquired the lease rights of the store building on Skladochnaya Street, comments to the press were then given by Alexey Samoilov, who represented himself as the director of EAA Asset Management-Consulting.