A One Direction has bought the landmark Moskva department store building on Leninsky Prospekt at a bankruptcy auction for 3.17 billion rubles ($100.6 million), Vedomosti reported, citing Tsentr Realizatsii, an auction house.
The starting price was 834.7 million rubles.
A One Direction is affiliated with Vladimir Palikhata, president of engineering company Rosenergomash, said Dmitry Ulyanitsky, a former chief executive of the store. Palikhata holds about 90 percent of Moskva's stock and debt, he said earlier without elaborating.
Palikhata and Grigory Rabinovich, a former chief executive of the store, have been involved in a conflict over ownership.
The Moskva department store, built in 1963, is a major historical landmark of the Soviet period. It has an area of 22,744 square meters.
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