The defense criticized the refusal to compensate a farmer from Kabardino-Balkaria.

A court in Kabardino-Balkaria upheld a decision denying Tamara Erzhibova multimillion-dollar damages for spoiling corn seeds at a grain receiving facility. The defense stated that the cassation court failed to properly evaluate the previously established facts.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," in December 2025, the 16th Arbitration Court of Appeal again ruled against compensating Tamara Erzhibova, head of the agricultural enterprise "Majesty." The defense announced filing an appeal against this decision.

The Arbitration Court of Cassation of the North Caucasus District upheld the ruling of the 16th Arbitration Court of Appeal, which denied compensation to the agricultural enterprise Majesty LLC for damage to corn seeds at the Prokhladny grain receiving facility. The ruling, issued on March 17, was published on the court's website on March 24.

According to the ruling, Majesty's defense stated in its complaint that "the appellate court ignored the fact that the Prokhladnensky District Court established the absence of a criminal offense in the actions of the LLC's director, that the company itself violated the corn storage technology (open-air storage), and that the corn delivered to the PKhPP was seed corn."

However, the court ruled that there were no grounds for reviewing the ruling of the 16th Arbitration Court of Appeal, since the acquittal of the Majesty director was not a significant basis.

Instead of applying the facts established by the verdict as binding, the court re-evaluated them.

Court Decision Islam Khachetlov, a lawyer for Majesty LLC, commented to a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

"A final court verdict is binding on the arbitration court on questions of whether certain actions took place and whether they were committed by a specific person. The acquittal of the Prokhladnensky District Court on December 6, 2024, and the ruling of the Supreme Court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic on July 1, 2025, established the following facts for the arbitration dispute: the absence of corpus delicti in the actions of Majesty's general director, as well as the fact that the defendant violated storage regulations (storage in the open air). Instead of applying the facts established by the verdict as binding, the court re-evaluated them, comparing the verdict's findings with its own findings from 2021. This was expressed in the formula 'the verdict's findings do not refute the findings of the appellate court,'" he said.

This approach is unlawful, Khachetlov emphasized. "Because the court prioritized its previous findings, based on the investigation materials, over the objective facts established by the general jurisdiction court in the criminal proceedings, the court failed to resolve the conflict of judicial decisions and merely stated its disagreement with the verdict, which is unacceptable," he said.

As a reminder, The legal battle between Majesty and the grain receiving facility has been ongoing since 2017. Majesty stated in its lawsuit that in 2016, it delivered 545 tons of seed corn worth over 30 million rubles to the Prokhladnensky Grain Receiving Facility, having previously entered into a processing agreement. After processing, the seeds proved unsuitable. As a result of the multi-million ruble damage, the agricultural enterprise's property was seized due to debts, and employees had to pay their wages from borrowed funds.

In 2024, following a complaint filed by Vladimir Semenov, director of the Prokhladnensky Grain Receiving Facility, a criminal case was opened against Tamara Erzhibova for fraud. The entrepreneur was accused of knowingly delivering spoiled corn for processing. In December 2024, the Prokhladnensky District Court issued an acquittal, and the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria upheld it.

The director of the PKhPP appealed Erzhibova's acquittal to the Fifth Cassation Court in Pyatigorsk, but on January 29, this court also upheld the verdict unchanged.