MOSCOW, May 16 (RAPSI) – Google Inc. has paid all administrative fines imposed by Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) as part of antitrust investigation, RIA Novosti reported Tuesday.

On May 11, the Federal Antimonopoly Service announced that the corporation had paid a 438-million-ruble (about $7.7 million) fine for violation of antimonopoly legislation.

Earlier, administrative proceedings against Google over its refusal to comply with the watchdog’s order were terminated after an amicable agreement had been achieved on April 17 in a dispute between FAS and the U.S. company. The settlement was approved by a federal court and a two-year-long legal battle between the watchdog and Google finally came to an end.

Google was to pay all fines imposed by FAS within two months. The payments due include 438 million rubles (about $7.7 million) fine for violating administrative legislation and 1 million rubles (about $17,750 at the current exchange rate) fine for refusal to comply with the watchdog’s order.

The agreement envisaging Google to allow more competition on mobile applications market was concluded for 6 years and 9 months.

In September 2015, the watchdog held that Google Ireland Ltd. and Google Inc. abused their dominance on the Russian market of mobile applications by preinstalling applications on Android smartphones and therefore violated anti-monopoly law. Google was fined but refused to comply and challenged the FAS order in Russian courts. Later, FAS imposed additional fines against Google, amounting to nearly 1 million rubles in total.