It is proved in Benamara-Nikolski [1] that if the spectrum σ($T$) of a contraction$T$with finite defects (rank($I−T$^{*}$T$)=rank ($I−TT$^{*})<∞) does not coincide with $$\bar D$$ , then the contraction is similar to a normal operator if and only if $$C_1 (T) = \mathop {\sup }\limits_{\lambda \in C\backslash \sigma (T)} \parallel (T - \lambda )^{ - 1} \parallel dist(\lambda ,\sigma (T))< \infty .$$