The Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region upheld the claim of the Crystal Innovation Processes Centre (CIP) against the City Property Relations Committee (KIO), obliging it to sell to the claimant a plot of land in the Kalininsky District, Bobruiskaya Street, 7, Building 2 (8.7 thousand m2, cadastral value – 48 million roubles), not far from the Finland Railway Station. At the same time, the court did not specify the price at which the land was to be sold, only noting that there were several buildings belonging to Crystal on the land. The main reason for the court’s refusal is that, according to Smolny, the land the company wanted to buy at auction is partly within the boundaries of the Bobruiskaya street.
However, according to the court’s decision, an error occurred in the regional programme “St. Petersburg Geographic Information System”, as a result of which the cartographic layer “Motorways” was displayed incorrectly.
As a result, the Arbitration Court declared the KIO’s refusal to sell the land to be unlawful and obliged the officials to sell the land, determining the value of the land in accordance with the law, and that its price should be determined in accordance with the requirements of the law.
Arina Dovzhenko, Partner and the Head of the Real Estate & Construction Practice at Nordic Star Law Offices commented on the case in DP material.
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