Bankrupt Profitmed failed to challenge the court decision in a dispute over payments of 6 billion rubles to Kron

In the court hearing, the cassation appeals were supported, in addition to the applicants themselves, by, in particular, representatives of Alfa-Bank, PSB Bank, Sberbank and Pharmstandard. Kron, the Federal Tax Service of Russia, and Moscow-based Ri-Si LLC spoke out against satisfying the claims.

Initially, the application from the bankruptcy trustee of Profitmed, Artem Sheludko, with a request to invalidate the payments to Kron was sent on June 5, 2024. As indicated in the case materials, 6.06 billion rubles were transferred to the defendant between March 2022 and December 2023 for the supply of drugs. At the same time, as Sheludko pointed out, there are no documents confirming the fact of deliveries to Profitmed. In addition, the bankruptcy trustee considered that part of the payments in the amount of 3.2 billion rubles should be recognized as invalid on the basis that, due to the chronological proximity of these transfers to the moment of recognition of Profitmed as insolvent, Kron "was given greater preference in relation to satisfying the claims that existed before the payments were made than would have been given in the case of settlements with creditors in order of priority."

In satisfying the stated demands, the Moscow Arbitration Court proceeded from the absence of evidence of Kron's counter-obligations to the debtor. Thus, the court concluded that the payments were gratuitous "for the purpose of withdrawing funds from the debtor's property estate under fictitious obligations."

Appeals against the first instance decision were filed in September 2024. In the Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal, Kron was able to prove that deliveries had been made by referring to the universal transfer documents signed by the parties to the transaction, the Krona sales books, and information from the FGIS MDLP system. As a result, in May 2025, the second instance overturned the ruling of the Moscow Arbitration Court and rejected the application of the bankruptcy trustee of Profitmed.

Now this decision has been supported by the Moscow District Arbitration Court, which considered that the appellate court “came to lawful and justified conclusions to refuse to satisfy the stated claims.”

According to SPARK-Interfax, Kron LLC was registered in 2008 in Perm. The company's beneficiary is Alexander Brovarets - he owns a 75% stake. The remaining 25% is owned by director Andrei Konchalovsky (Mikhalkov). In 2024, Kron's revenue was estimated at 14.3 billion rubles, net profit - 385.6 million rubles.

In January 2023, the St. Petersburg supplier of medical products Eklif filed a bankruptcy claim against the Moscow pharmaceutical distributor Profitmed in the Moscow Arbitration Court. Later, bankruptcy proceedings were announced against Profitmed. In May 2023, Aresbank, which presented creditor claims for 574.9 million rubles to the pharmaceutical distributor, demanded that the co-founder of the legal entity, Dmitry Svirin, be declared insolvent. Then Svirin became a defendant in a criminal case on fraud with credit funds on an especially large scale.