Russian antitrust ready to go to court to force Google to obey

MOSCOW, Nov 29 (PRIME) -- Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service will not put up with the disobedience of Google, which the authority earlier found guilty of abusing its dominance on the mobile application market, and will ask court to force it to improve, the antitrust service’s Director Igor Artemyev told reporters on Tuesday.

“Google has challenged all our fines…The Russian government will never tolerate disrespect to court decisions. That is why, as one more measure, not the final one, will be address of the Federal Antimonopoly Service to court to make our warrant fulfilled. As you know, the law stipulates criminal punishment of the top managers who ignore a decision,” Artemyev said.

The antimonopoly service had been waiting until Monday for Google to report on mending its violations on the local market of preinstalled application stores, for which the U.S. company was fined 438 million rubles. Artemyev said earlier that the authority could punish Google with one million rubles for missing the deadline and go to court.

Google and the service are involved in a number of court proceedings at the moment.

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