Omega Opt Trading, the asset of Omega Group strong drinks chain, was recently declared bankrupt. Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court ruled on February 3, 2011 that the company should undergo bankruptcy proceedings. Pavel Klementiev of Razvitiye, a self-regulatory organization of trustees in bankruptcy, was appointed the company’s trustee in bankruptcy. Now Omega Group’s representatives announced in December that their leaving the market results from court trials on claims laid against them by Sberbank of Russia. Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court and Yekaterinburg Oktyabrsky district court

Yekaterinburg Chkalovsky District court rejected the prosecution’s demand that founder of Maxi Group Nikolai Maksimov be detained. The entrepreneur was released on a 50-million-rouble bail. Maksimov will now have to stay in Yekaterinburg to help complete the investigation by law-enforcement authorities. This done, he’ll take off for Moscow, where his official residence is. The businessman promised to come to Yekaterinburg any time the court or the investigative authorities ask him to do so. Maksimov explained why he came to Russia from abroad where he had been staying. ‘I came for justice,’