Alior Bank is a defendant in one class action case (suit was filed on 5 March 2018) brought by an individual representing a group of 84 natural and legal persons and 4 individual cases to rule Alior Bank’s liability for a loss caused by the improper performance of Alior Bank’s disclosure obligations to clients and improper performance of agreements to provide services of accepting and forwarding purchase or sale orders of investment certificates of mutual funds managed previously by Fincrea TFI SA and currently by Raiffeisen Bank International AG (Spółka Akcyjna) Branch in Poland (Funds). With the decision of 27 September 2019 the court resolved to examine the case in a group procedure. By letter dated 15 July 2021, the claim was expanded to include a group of another 283 people. At the same time, declarations of withdrawal from the group were filed by 14 persons. The value of the subject matter of the extended lawsuit as of 15 July 2021, and based on the pleading on the extension of the lawsuit, was PLN 104 million, with the final value of the subject matter of the lawsuit to be determined after the Regional Court in Warsaw issues an order determining the composition of the group. The lawsuits were filed to establish liability (not for payment, i.e. damages), so the PZU Group does not expect any cash outflow from these proceedings other than litigation costs, which it estimates at PLN 600 thousand.
Alior Bank is also a defendant in 102 cases brought by purchasers of the Funds’ investment certificates for payment (damages). The total value of the subject matter of litigation in these cases is PLN 34 million
According to the PZU Group, each payment case requires an individual approach. The final value of the investment certificates will be determined upon completion of the liquidation. After analysis and selection of cases, those were singled out in which certain risk factors justify the establishment of a provision. Its calculation also took into account a possible increase in the scale of lawsuits. The total value of the provision as of 31 December 2022 was PLN 20 million.