On Friday, the Nürburgring signs a purchase agreement for the insolvent Hahn Airport. However, the Ministry of Economics could prevent the sale to the owner company around the Russian Charitonin. In this case, there is another bidder who is said to have already paid.
In the sales poker for the insolvent Hunsrück Airport Hahn, there is another bidder in addition to the Nürburgring holding company. This bidder, a Mainz real estate investor called the Richter Group, says it has already signed a notarial purchase agreement through a subsidiary and transferred a purchase price to a so-called escrow account. According to dpa information, Hahn’s insolvency administrator Jan Markus Plathner secures another option if the Federal Ministry of Economics does not give the green light to the Nürburgring holding company NR Holding around the Russian Viktor Charitonin in accordance with the Foreign Trade and Payments Act.
The investor with the highest purchase offer in the original Hahn bidding process, Frankfurt-based Swift Conjoy GmbH, probably never paid the agreed purchase price. The company has not responded to several dpa inquiries.
Therefore, the bidder with what was once the second-highest offer, NR Holding, has now entered Hahn Airport with a purchase agreement and around 20 million euros. The Russian pharmaceutical company Charitonin is not on any EU sanctions list for Russia, which is waging a war of aggression against Ukraine. NR Holding confirmed: “Yes, we have concluded a contract. However, this is subject to various conditions precedent.”
The third-highest bid in the original Hahn bidding process came from the Richter group of companies. The company said it had renamed an existing subsidiary Flughafen Frankfurt Hahn Betriebs GmbH, which is acting as the buyer of the airport. Her managing director, Julia Richter, said with a view to the reports about a Russian boarding at Hahn Airport: “Everything has now rolled over backwards.”
