20.12.2023, 19:53
A court in Moscow imposed a turnover fine of 4.6 billion rubles on Google
Source: OREANDA-NEWS
OREANDA-NEWS The Tagansky court of Moscow has imposed a fine of 4.6 billion rubles on Google for repeated failure to delete information, access to which is subject to restriction, including fakes about a special military operation of the Russian Federation and LGBT content, the court told Interfax.
"To impose a penalty on Google LLC in the form of a fine in the amount of 4,611,738,636 rubles. 60 kopecks," the court said on Wednesday.
Google was found guilty of repeated failure to remove prohibited content (Part 5 of Article 13.41 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation).
The punishment for such an offense provides for a so-called revolving fine for legal entities - "from one twentieth to one tenth of the total amount of revenue received from the sale of all goods (works, services) for the calendar year preceding the year in which the administrative offense was detected, or for the part of the calendar year in which the administrative offense was detected preceding the date of the detected administrative offense, if the offender did not carry out activities for the sale of goods (works, services) in the previous calendar year, but not less than 4 million rubles."
According to the Roskomnadzor protocol on an administrative offense against Google, the corporation was charged with not removing false socially significant information about the special military operation of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine, videos containing LGBT content from YouTube, as well as extremist materials.
The representative of the company, who participated in the meeting, asked the court to terminate the proceedings in the case.
The turnover fine imposed by Google on Wednesday was the third for the company. Since the end of 2021, Google has already been fined twice in the Russian Federation for repeated violations of Russian legislation totaling more than 29 billion rubles. Part of the money was recovered from the company by the Federal Bailiff Service.
In October 2023, the Moscow Arbitration Court declared bankrupt the Russian "daughter" of Google, Google LLC, by entering bankruptcy proceedings for a period of six months against the company.
"To impose a penalty on Google LLC in the form of a fine in the amount of 4,611,738,636 rubles. 60 kopecks," the court said on Wednesday.
Google was found guilty of repeated failure to remove prohibited content (Part 5 of Article 13.41 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation).
The punishment for such an offense provides for a so-called revolving fine for legal entities - "from one twentieth to one tenth of the total amount of revenue received from the sale of all goods (works, services) for the calendar year preceding the year in which the administrative offense was detected, or for the part of the calendar year in which the administrative offense was detected preceding the date of the detected administrative offense, if the offender did not carry out activities for the sale of goods (works, services) in the previous calendar year, but not less than 4 million rubles."
According to the Roskomnadzor protocol on an administrative offense against Google, the corporation was charged with not removing false socially significant information about the special military operation of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine, videos containing LGBT content from YouTube, as well as extremist materials.
The representative of the company, who participated in the meeting, asked the court to terminate the proceedings in the case.
The turnover fine imposed by Google on Wednesday was the third for the company. Since the end of 2021, Google has already been fined twice in the Russian Federation for repeated violations of Russian legislation totaling more than 29 billion rubles. Part of the money was recovered from the company by the Federal Bailiff Service.
In October 2023, the Moscow Arbitration Court declared bankrupt the Russian "daughter" of Google, Google LLC, by entering bankruptcy proceedings for a period of six months against the company.
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