The Commercial Court of Vienna (Austria) has granted Oschadbank's application for a precautionary measure against former Verkhovna Rada member, blogger Boryslav Bereza, the application was filed at the defendant's registered place of permanent residence.
This is announced in the bank's statement, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
According to the adopted decision, the defendant is obliged from now on to refrain from making statements and distributing them, in particular on social networks, regarding the accusations of the bank and its officials in the circumstances of the "Hungarian case", as well as to delete previous publications of such statements.
According to the Austrian Civil Code and the Unfair Competition Act, a preliminary injunction is a step aimed at promptly protecting the plaintiff's rights and preventing further dissemination of inaccurate information.
Failure to comply with the preliminary injunction may result in a fine of up to EUR 100,000 per violation, payable to the Austrian budget.
In accordance with the EU Digital Services Act, the Facebook and Telegram administrations have been notified of the decision with a view to the forcible removal of the previous publications if the defendant fails to do so in a timely manner.
The next step will be for Oschadbank to file a main claim for the protection of business reputation in general action proceedings in order to obtain a final injunction against the dissemination of false information.
As part of these proceedings, the bank may be awarded compensation for legal costs.
Oschadbank's interests in the business reputation case in Austria are represented by the Austrian law firm Binder Grösswang, with national legal advisor Asters.
After the detention of Oschadbank's collection vehicle in Hungary, former Verkhovna Rada member Boryslav Bereza published information on social networks about the possible use of Oschadbank's collection vehicles for the shadow withdrawal of capital abroad.
The bank regarded these statements as damaging to its business reputation and filed a lawsuit with the Commercial Court of Vienna (at Bereza's place of residence).
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on the morning of March 6, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha announced that Hungary had seized 7 Oschadbank employees who were traveling with money on a collection flight from Austria.
Hungarian law enforcement agencies hid two stolen Oschadbank collection vehicles in the closed territory of the Anti-Terrorism Center.
The amount of valuables in the stolen vehicles amounted to USD 40 million, EUR 35 million and 9 kg of gold.
In turn, Oschadbank stated that the transportation of funds and valuables was carried out directly by the bank within the framework and in accordance with an international agreement with Raiffeisen Bank (Austria).
On the evening of March 6, Ukraine achieved the return of seven collectors detained by Hungary.
On March 13, Hungary returned the collector cars to Oschadbank, but without money and gold.
In early May, Hungary returned Oschadbank's funds and valuables, which were seized by Hungarian special services in March.
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