“Gazprom” has decided to sue the AMC, not to pay 172 billion hryvnias of a penalty
“Gazprom” has decided to sue the AMC, not to pay 172 billion hryvnias of a penalty
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The Russian monopolist has filed an appeal to the court.
The Russian company “Gazprom” appealed to the Kyiv economic court of appeal on the decision of Economic court of Kiev from December 5, which satisfied the claim of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine and decided to collect with “Gazprom” 172 billion UAH of fines and penalties (of 6.54 billion at the current exchange rate of NBU).
“Filed an appeal,” reads the informational help of the court, transfer “Ukrainian news”.
We will remind, the Antimonopoly Committee has fined “Gazprom” on 85,966 billion UAH for abuse of monopoly position on the market of gas transit by January 22 of this year. The Russian monopolist the fine is not paid and filed a lawsuit in Kyiv Economic court to cancel the fine. The claim to consideration is not accepted, because they found the decision of the AMC legal. This was confirmed by the higher courts.
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In the fall a lawsuit already filed the AMC for compulsory collection of fines and penalties. The penalty is calculated at 1.5% of the amount of debt for each day of delay (approximately 1,289 billion UAH on the day). According to the law, the penalty cannot exceed the amount of the fine, so fines and penalties have the same amount – 85,966 billion UAH, which is 171,932 billion.
Meanwhile , Naftogaz expects $ 20 billion in additional revenue in case of victory in court against “Gazprom”.