Committal for contempt of court: Grainful Holding -v- Igor Mineev

Business and Property CourtsCommercial CourtHigh CourtKing's Bench DivisionCommittal for Contempt of Court

Neutral citation number: [2026] EWHC 507 (Comm)

Case number: CL-2022-000022

In the High Court of Justice
Business and Property Courts of England and Wales
Commercial Court (KBD)

10 July 2026

Before:

Mr Justice Henshaw

Between:

Grainful Holding Limited
(Claimant)

-v-

Igor Mineev
(Defendant)

MR JAMES GOODWIN (instructed by Fladgate LLP) for the Claimant

THE DEFENDANT did not attend and was not represented

Statement pursuant to
Practice Direction [2015] 1 WLR 2195

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MR JUSTICE HENSHAW:

  1. This is a statement pursuant to the Practice Direction (Committal for Contempt: Open Court) [2015] 1 WLR 2195 in relation to claim number CL 2022-000022.
  2. On 6 February 2026 at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, Mr Justice Henshaw sentenced the defendant, Igor Mineev, for contempt of court. That followed a judgment handed down on 19 December 2025 finding that Igor Mineev had committed contempt of court, the general nature of which was knowingly breaching a disclosure order made by Mr Justice Henshaw on 22 October 2024, bearing a penal notice, by failing to serve an affidavit and to provide copy documentation as required by that order.
  3. The sentence imposed was a custodial sentence of 5 months for contempt of court, suspended for 12 months on condition that Igor Mineev complied within 2 months with the conditions set out in the schedule to the court’s order. Those conditions required Igor Mineev to comply with requirements of the disclosure order with which he had not complied by the date of sentencing.
  4. At a further hearing on 10 July 2026 at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, Mr Justice Henshaw found, on the evidence, that Igor Mineev had failed to comply within 2 months, or at all, with any of the conditions set out in the schedule to the court’s order of 6 February 2026. Mr Justice Henshaw further concluded that no adequate explanation had been provided for that failure, that the failure was serious, and that in all the circumstances the appropriate course was to activate the custodial sentence in full. The judge therefore signed a warrant of committal for the apprehension and detention of Igor Mineev for a period of 5 months.