In 2019, our client recovered a debt in the amount of USD 1.3 million from another individual in court. Since 2020, enforcement proceedings have been underway, in which bailiffs have been unable to execute a debt collection decision. Meanwhile, in August 2025, the Moscow Region Arbitration Court initiated case No. A41-48444/2025 on the debtor’s insolvency (bankruptcy), which the creditor (our client) did not know about. As a result, when in February 2026 Our client has received information about the debtor’s bankruptcy, and the three-month deadline for including the claim in the creditors’ register has been missed. The creditor contacted our law office with this problem.
We collected evidence that our client had no reason to search for information about the debtor’s insolvency, since enforcement proceedings had not been completed, and that he had not received notifications from the bankruptcy trustee, and filed a petition with the court to restore the deadline and include the claim in the register of creditors. In its ruling dated June 30, 2026 the Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region agreed with our arguments that the legal significance is not the moment of publication of the information message on the introduction of the procedure, but the circumstances related to the creditor’s individual awareness of the debtor’s bankruptcy. As a result, the court restored the deadline, and our client’s claim in the amount of more than 100 million rubles was included in the register of creditors’ claims.
