Moscow court registers suit from Google vs antitrust service

MOSCOW, Aug 30 (PRIME) -- The Moscow Arbitration Court has registered a lawsuit from Google against the Federal Antimonopoly Service, which earlier found the U.S. giant guilty of law breaches on the market of preinstalled application stores and fined it 438 million rubles, according to the court’s information seen by PRIME on Tuesday.

The court received the claim on Monday and has not started any consideration yet. No grounds behind the lawsuit have been disclosed so far. The case is said to be of the economic dispute category on administrative violations.

Possibly, the U.S. behemoth contested the fine, which was announced on August 11 after a number of delays.

The antitrust watchdog opened the case against Google in February 2015, found it guilty of forcing manufacturers of Android devices to preinstall Google Play in a bundle with its search engines and applications on priority spots on displays. The U.S. company was ordered to rectify all the infringements by the end of 2015, but it contested the decision.

The Moscow Arbitration Court upheld the service’s standpoint in March, but Google filed an appeal, though with no success.

(65.0810 rubles – U.S. $1)

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