MOSCOW, December 27 (RAPSI) – Gazprombank has filed a petition with the Moscow Region Commercial Court seeking to include a 1.1-billion-ruble debt ($19 million) of businessman and lawyer Dmitry Yakubovsky in the list of creditors' claims, according to court records.

The application will be considered on February 15.

On December 15, the court initiated a debt restructuring process against Yakubovsky. His 2.2-billion-ruble debt (about $38 million) to a regional inspection office of the Federal Tax Service has been also added to the creditors’ list.

The lawyer’s bankruptcy hearing has been set for March 20.

Yakubovsky acted as a TV host, a lecturer in Moscow’s Griboyedov Institute of International Law and Economy, a chairman of Presidium of the First Moscow Bar Association. Since 2007, he has run real estate development business. Yakubovsky owns the Swiss company Engelberg Industrial Group.