Lawyer Airapetov: In a divorce, the Bakalchuk spouses will receive equal shares of Wildberries
The founders of the Wildberries marketplace, Tatyana and Vladislav Bakalchuki, will receive equal shares in the company if they do not have a marriage contract, according to Artur Airapetov, a member of the Moscow City Bar Association. In a conversation with Lenta.ru, he spoke about the nuances of dividing property during a divorce.
“If the Wildberries company was created during the Bakalchuk couple’s marriage, and there is no marriage contract between them, then according to the mandatory norms of the law, all property acquired by the spouses is their joint property,” he said.
If there is no marriage contract between the spouses, then one half of the company and all other property registered to Ms. Bakalchuk belongs to her husband.
According to the lawyer, an attempt by one of the spouses to transfer property to third parties will not help preserve part of the property.
“Any efforts related to the fact that one of the spouses is getting rid of real estate will not affect the division of this property. The court always takes into account that this or that property was taken out of possession due to the fault of a specific spouse and always imposes an obligation on a specific spouse to compensate everything in monetary terms,” he noted.
Here we are dealing either with a real divorce and the unwillingness of one of the parties to get divorced under the guise that a corporate raid is taking place. Or there really is some pressure on Ms. Bakalchuk and under this pressure she gives out various versions, including that this is a divorce and she is behaving this way, but this is definitely not being done to protect this property from divorce proceedings.
On July 23, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, published a video recording of a conversation with the co-founder of the Wildberries marketplace, Vladislav Bakalchuk, in his Telegram channel, in which he spoke about an attempt to raid the marketplace by some Caucasians.
According to him, the company Russ Outdoor, headed by businessmen Levon and Robert Mirzoyan, is trying to get hold of the enterprise. He claims that they put pressure on his wife and she left home. In response, the head of Chechnya promised to help and “return Tatyana Vladimirovna to the family.” He instructed his ally, State Duma deputy Adam Delimkhanov, to sort out the case.
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Later, Bakalchuk commented on the incident. “This is not a hostile takeover. This is a scam. From the very beginning, everything was agreed upon with Vladislav,” she said. Wildberries and Russ Outdoor also reported that they continue to work together in a stable mode.
Tatyana and Vladislav Bakalchuki got married in the early 2000s. They founded the Wildberries company in 2004.
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