MOSCOW, December 5 (RAPSI) – Sberbank of Russia has filed a claim seeking to recover 1.007 billion rubles (almost $16 million) from four firms within Ulmart group of companies, the records of the Commercial Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region show on Monday.

Earlier, the Baltiyskaya Electronic Trading Platform has turned to the same commercial court seeking a Ulmart’s structure Ulmart Regional Sales Company bankruptcy. The hearings are set to begin on December 20. As an injunctive relief in these bankruptcy proceedings, the court prohibited nine banks to carry out automatic transfers from a number of the debtor’s accounts.

Besides, yet in November a Russian businessman lodged with the Commercial Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region a bankruptcy claim against another firm within Ulmart group of companies, which is to be examined on December 15.

The group of companies Ulmart is the largest Russian private Internet holding focusing on e-commerce segment. The company’s distribution network consists of over 400 sales outlets across more than 240 Russian cities and towns.