In Transbaikalia, the court found the tariffs for heat supply for business overpriced by 30%

In the Trans-Baikal Territory, the court, at the suit of the prosecutor’s office, found the tariffs for heat supply for businesses overpriced by more than 30%, the Office of the Prosecutor General’s Office for the Far Eastern Federal District reported. In particular, entrepreneurs from Chita in 2023 were obliged to pay 2,148 rubles. per gigacalorie, while a tariff of 1464 rubles / Gcal is considered “economically justified”.

The lawsuit was filed after an unnamed businessman sent an appeal to the prosecutor’s office. During the audit, the agency found that the regional service for tariffs and pricing approved tariffs for heat supply services in Chita, Borzinsky and Priargunsky districts of the region for budgetary organizations and business entities “in an amount higher than economically justified.” The prosecutor’s office notes that this “contradicts the law and infringes on the rights of business representatives.”

The agency appealed the actions of the regulator in court, which agreed with the position of the prosecutor’s office, obliging them to adopt a new regulatory legal act. “After the regulator establishes new tariffs within two months in accordance with the requirements of the law, entrepreneurs have the right to contact the service provider to recalculate or recover in court the amount of the overpayment for the disputed period,” the statement says. press release departments.

Laura Keffer