MOSCOW, September 5 (RAPSI) – The Moscow Commercial Court has set preliminary hearings in Google’s appeal against ruling of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), which fined the corporation 438 million rubles ($6.7 mln), the court documents read on Monday.
On August 17 the Ninth Commercial Court of Appeals has dismissed an appeal filed by Google against a ruling that the US company had broken Russian anti-monopoly legislation by abusing its dominance on the Russian market of mobile applications.
In early August FAS announced that it had fined Google 438 million rubles for violating administrative legislation.
On September 18, 2015, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) found Google guilty of violation the legislation.
On March 15, 2016, the Moscow Commercial Court dismissed Google’s petition requesting to abolish the FAS decision and order issued in September 2015, which stated that the company had violated the Federal Law on Protection of Competition and accusing it of abuse of dominance on the market of preinstalled applications in the Android operating system.
