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The plaintiffs appealed to the district court docket, requesting to demand from the defendants Šarūnas Stepukonis and the distant playing organizers UAB Olympic On line casino Group Baltija and the father or mother firm OB Holding 1 OÜ established in Estonia, the cash of their accounts (greater than 10 million euros) or to collectively award damages wage After the corporate “OB Holding 1 OÜ” submitted a request to the court docket to not look at the declare filed in opposition to it, correctly examined exterior Lithuanian courts, the district court docket rejected the request.
The Courtroom of Attraction of Lithuania, which examined the separate grievance of “OB Holding 1 OÜ”, confirmed that the declare in opposition to the corporate “OB Holding 1 OÜ” could be examined in Lithuania along with the claims made in opposition to different defendants.
Through the examination of this case, the identical circumstances must be decided in relation to all of the defendants, associated to the plaintiffs’ cash transfers that had been within the financial institution accounts of Š. Stepukonis, in addition to the circumstances associated as to if UAB Olympic On line casino Group Baltija and OB Holding 1 OÜ correctly carried out their duties and the way the doable unlawful actions of the defendants contributed to inflicting injury to the plaintiffs.
If the declare in opposition to OB Holding 1 OÜ had been to be examined individually from the identical declare in opposition to the opposite defendants, there could be a danger of mutually incompatible choices, because the dispute may very well be factually and legally resolved in another way.
As well as, in accordance with the evaluation of the appellate court docket, within the case into account there’s a shut connection of the case with Lithuania, the injury occurred in Lithuania, as a result of the cash for the distant playing organizers was transferred to their accounts in Lithuania, due to this fact, in an effort to have an environment friendly course of and simpler assortment of proof, the case ought to be heard in Lithuanian courts.
This ruling of the Lithuanian Courtroom of Attraction in civil case no. e2–459-790/2024 enters into power on the date of its adoption, however inside three months from the date of adoption, an enchantment could also be made within the cassation process to the Supreme Courtroom of Lithuania.
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