The board of the Ukrainian company will receive bonuses for winning the Stockholm Arbitration Court over the Russian gas concern. This decision was voted by the Supervisory Board of Naftogaz, the Ukrainian Pravda reported on Tuesday, May 29. According to the source of the publication, this is a bonus for the win by the Kiev side of the second part of the dispute - under a transit contract.
"The approved amount of bonuses is 1% of the winning amount (in this case - $ 4.56 billion). Thus, the board is subject to payment of $ 45.6 million, "- notes the publication. At the moment, about $ 20 million has already been paid, the interlocutor said.. The rest of the premium members of the board of directors expect after the actual execution of the verdict of arbitration by Gazprom. Board of "Naftogaz" gets bonuses for won litigation is not the first time. In 2017, the management team of the company among the 8 people were paid bonuses after the arbitration canceled the "take or pay" and satisfy the application of the Ukrainian side to review the gas price under the contract. Money then went to the head of "Naftogaz" Andrei Kobolev. Recall, December 22, 2017 Stockholm Arbitration Court ruled in favor of the Ukrainian company under the contract for the supply of Russian blue fuel. In February 2018, the court decided on the dispute between the parties under the gas transit contract.
In agreement with this verdict, Gazprom is obliged to pay Naftogaz $ 4.63 billion. However, taking into account the debt of Private for Russian gas, the total amount was lower - $ 2.56 billion.
Moscow has opposed such a verdict of the court. In early March, Gazprom announced the termination of contracts for the supply and transit of blue fuel with Naftogaz,. Just the day before, the domestic concern filed an appeal against the decision of Stockholm on the transit contract with the Ukrainian company.
In "Gazprom" with the help of a "world-recognized expert linguist" found that "a significant part of the arbitral award was written not by arbitrators, but by another person".