Siemens asks court to return counter-claim to Rostec unit

MOSCOW, Oct 18 (PRIME) -- Germany’s Siemens has asked the Moscow Arbitration Court to return to a unit of industrial holding Rostec its counter-claim over turbines delivered to Crimea, a representative of Siemens said on Wednesday.

“There are no grounds to consider the counter-claim jointly with the original one. These are different circumstances... Should the court agree, it will have to simultaneously consider actually two different cases,” the spokesperson said.

Siemens Gas Turbine Technologies would have never signed a contract with Technopromexport if it had known that turbines were to be supplied to Crimea, he also said.

Rostec’s unit Technopromexport LLC on Monday put the counter-claim in the turbines case and asked the Moscow Arbitration Court to void a contract on delivery of turbines signed by Siemens’ unit Siemens Gas Turbine Technologies and Technopromexport PJSC in March 2015.

Siemens said in July that all the four turbines meant to be used on a Russian power plant on the Taman Peninsula were illegally shipped to Crimea, forcing the company to cancel its licensing agreements to sell power equipment to Russian firms and suspend the current agreements with state-run companies. Later, Siemens filed a claim against Rostec’s companies seeking to void a delivery contract.

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