885 Russian companies joined the lawsuit against Google

885 Russian companies have filed applications to include their claims in the bankruptcy lawsuit against Google LLC (Google’s Russian legal entity), reports Vedomosti with reference to the court file. Among those who filed applications are Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Rosbusinessconsulting JSC, Kommersant JSC, IT companies 1C-Bitrix LLC and Netology LLC.

According to the newspaper, only 66 companies were included in the register of claims of creditors of the third stage against Google, the amount of their claims is 105 million rubles. The largest creditors are LLC Shkulev Media (with claims for 31.2 million rubles) and JSC VTB Leasing (24.3 million rubles). Most of the lawsuits are related to the failure to provide advertising services.

Roskomnadzor said that Google has not yet paid 19.6 billion rubles. fine. “The total amount of fines imposed by the court is 28.3 billion rubles, of which only 62 million were paid voluntarily by the company, and more than 8.7 billion were forcibly collected by bailiffs,” the representative of the department added.

In December 2021, the court, at the request of Roskomnadzor, imposed a turnover fine of 7.2 billion rubles on the company. for not deleting prohibited information. Less than six months fine increased by 0.5 billion rubles. through the performance fee. In May 2022 bailiffs declaredthat they will recover another 4 million rubles from the company, and a week later on Google accounts arrested 500 million rubles according to the claim of VGTRK. In June, the Russian “daughter” of Google filed bankruptcy filing.

Laura Keffer