The Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region has accepted for consideration a lawsuit by the Prosecutor General's Office against co-owners of the St. Petersburg Oil Terminal, Elena Vasilyeva and her husband, company co-founder Sergei Vasilyev. The agency demands that 45% of the enterprise's shares controlled by the family be turned over to state revenue. At the prosecutor's request, the court has already seized the shares and banned the co-owners from disposing of them.

If the lawsuit is granted, the company will be fully nationalized: the remaining 55% of the terminal's shares already belong to the state.

The defendants do not yet know the exact nature of the claims. As Dmitry Oktytsyuk, a representative of the Vasilyev family, stated, the prosecutor's office is contesting the legality of a 2022 deal in which Sergei Vasilyev, as part of deoffshorization, transferred the terminal's shares from his Cypriot offshore to himself. Vasilyev himself admits he may have violated a presidential decree requiring coordination with a government commission for the transfer of rights to Russian assets from foreigners to Russians. Oktytsyuk noted that the family learned of the lawsuit only from the court's website, and the text of the claim will be provided to them only on September 7.

The St. Petersburg Oil Terminal is Russia's largest terminal for transshipment of petroleum products in the Baltic region. It was founded in 1996 by Dmitry Skigin, who together with businessman Ilya Traber controlled the port. In the late 1990s, Skigin's partner Sergei Vasilyev became a co-owner of the terminal, and in 2022 he transferred the business to his wife Elena.

In July 2025, a court already seized 55% of the terminal's shares belonging to the children of the deceased Skigin — they held German and French citizenship, and the prosecutor's office cited a law banning foreigners from investing in strategic enterprises. In summer 2026, the Federal Agency for State Property Management transferred these shares to the company Roskhim, which is linked to the family of Vladimir Putin's friend Arkady Rotenberg. As The Bell reports, the board of directors of Roskhim is headed by Igor Rotenberg.

A preliminary hearing on the new lawsuit is scheduled for September 11.