Responsibility of Controlling Persons in Bank Bankruptcy

The institution of bringing to subsidiary liability the persons controlling the debtor is a mechanism for protecting the property interests of creditors who rightly expect compensation for losses due to unlawful or incompetent actions of specific persons who have a certain influence on the activities of the debtor. Being an exceptional measure of a legal nature, this mechanism is quite often used in bankruptcy cases, including when a credit institution is involved as a debtor in the case. Meanwhile, almost every fourth application to bring a person controlling a credit organization to subsidiary liability remains unsatisfied. This circumstance indicates the presence of a systemic problem in understanding those fundamental criteria, in the presence of which the law enforcer has the right, and in some cases is obliged, to implement the legal mechanism in question for protecting the rights of creditors. In this regard, the authors made an attempt to analyze the legal doctrine in order to determine the concept and essence of subsidiary liability of controlling persons in the bankruptcy of banks, as well as to study the mechanism for bringing controlling persons to subsidiary liability in the bankruptcy of banks. The methodological basis of the study is the dialectical approach with its inherent general philosophical methods of cognition and the laws of dialectics. Analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, analogy, generalization, as well as logical, historical, systemic, structural-functional and comparative methods were used as general scientific research methods. Legal analysis of legal phenomena and categories was carried out using special legal methods: formal legal, comparative legal, legal unification, legal analogy.

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