The fine, amounting to RUB 438 million, imposed by the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) on US Corporation Google, made up 9% from the company’s turnover on the RF mobile applications store market for 2014, Head of FAS Igor Artemiev said during the interview to RIA News, PRIME reports.
Previously FAS found that Google violated the competition law, imputing the abuse of dominating position on the market of pre-installed applications stores in Android OS, and ordered to remove violations through correction of agreements with producers of devices. The case was initiated as per the complaint from Yandex. FAS also qualified as the violations the obligatory pre-installation on mobile applications together with Google Play of other applications of the company and the ban on pre-installation of applications of other companies.
In August, FAS imposed a fine on Google for the violations – amounting to RUB 438 million. As the agency previously noted, the fine, imposed on Google, should make up from 1 to 15% from the turnover on mobile applications store market for 2014. However, until this moment the service did not reveal which share the said RUB 438 million make up as a result, referring to the commercial secret.
“About 9%. We never apply the maximum of 15%, in order we have where to move”, Artemiev told. Therefore, the Google turnover made up around RUB 4.9 billion on the Russian mobile applications market in 2014.
Currently, in Moscow arbitration court Google disputes FAS decision on the fine. On October 25, the court decided to postpone the case hearing until November 1. The company filed a request about the trial in camera – without audience and mass media representatives, referring to the presence of evidence in case materials, containing the commercial secret.