The court imposed a 200 million ruble fine on Amazon – Kommersant

A magistrate in Moscow imposed a turnover fine on the American company Amazon in the amount of more than 200 million rubles. for an administrative offense. It is due to the company’s lack of representative office in the Russian Federation.

Amazon was found guilty of failure to fulfill the obligations provided for by the law on the activities of foreign entities on the Internet on the territory of the Russian Federation (Part 2 of Article 13.49 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation). Amazon Web Services Inc. punishment was imposed in the form of an administrative fine in the amount of 200 million 469 thousand 997 rubles. 13 kopecks,” the resolution says. O. Alexandra Mikhaleva, magistrate judge of judicial district N422 of the Tagansky district (quote from Interfax).

The legislation suggests that if a foreign company operates in Russia without opening a branch or representative office, it faces a fine in the amount of 1/15 to 1/10 of the total amount of revenue for the calendar year. Today, January 17, the court is considering similar protocols against another 10 companies.

In October 2023, Roskomnadzor expanded “coercive measures” against a number of foreign hosting providers for their refusal to open representative offices in the country. The restrictions affected 12 major hosting providers, including Amazon Web Services, GoDaddy and Hetzner. In relation to 11 of them, a “ban on searching for information about the websites of these companies” was introduced.

On the obligations of foreign hosting providers in the Russian Federation – in the Kommersant material “Roskomnadzor has counted to twelve”.

Laura Keffer