MOSCOW, September 29 (RAPSI) – Facebook Inc has obtained a delay for the payment of fines making in total of 26 million rubles (about $360,000) until October 4, RAPSI was told in the press service of Moscow’s Tagansky District Court.
On September 28, the last day of the deadline for the voluntary payment of the fines, Facebook Inc company asked the court for a postponement. Facebook Inc filed an application for a postponement of the execution of the fines imposed by a magistrate court, citing technical problems in the transfer of funds.
Facebook lnc was found guilty of committing several administrative offenses under the Russian Code of Administrative Offences (violation of the procedure governing the restriction of access to information).
Earlier, Russia’s communications watchdog Roskomnadzor reminded that if an Internet platform fails to block the prohibited information within 24 hours after receiving the respective notification, it faces fines ranging from 800,000 to 4 million rubles ($11,000 – 55,000) and up to 10% of its total annual revenue in case of repeated violations.