Russian watchdog may sue Gazprom over pipe tenders August

MOSCOW, Jul 16 (PRIME) -- Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service can consider initiating a case against gas giant Gazprom over the company’s tenders for big-diameter pipelines in August, Deputy Director Andrei Tsarikovsky told PRIME Thursday.

“I think that we will receive an answer (from Gazprom to a warning letter sent earlier), will study it carefully and will come back to this issue. I mean, sometime in August,” Tsarikovsky said.

The watchdog has said that Gazprom hurts competition by admitting to the tenders only the companies which are united in large groups of suppliers.

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