Konstantin Boytsov has been quoted by Delovoy Peterburg about the unlawful actions of a landlord of a commercial centre

On 8 July, Delovoy Peterburg published an article which examines the situation between the tenants and the landlord of a commercial centre in St Petersburg called Monpansye.  The article is about how the dispute concerning Monpansye, which is a 58,500 square metres property, in the arbitration court of St Petersburg and the Leningrad region flared up.

Head of the practice for real estate and construction at Maxima Legal, Konstantin Boytsov, is representing the interests of a tenant, a gallery of Russian designers called ‘Luglook’, who the landlord is threatening with fines and doubling rental payments along with a threat of blocking access to the building.

Konstantin assessed the current situation as a flagrant breach of the law, ‘eviction of a tenant can only take place on the basis of a court decision, the actions of blocking access of a tenant, whose lease is registered with Rosreestre [the Russian equivalent of a Land Registry], is against legislation.’

He considers that the owner of the commercial centre used the procedure of restructuring in order to try to avoid the obligations of the previous owner.

To read the article (in Russian), please see the following website: dp.ru.