The Russian authorities have collected 13 billion rubles in fines from Google

Since 2021, the Federal Bailiff Service of Russia has collected 13.4 billion rubles from Google LLC (a Russian subsidiary of Google), which is 40% of the total amount of fines for violating Russian law, the press service of Roskomnadzor told Izvestia. The total amount of penalties imposed on Google LLC is 32.8 billion rubles. Of these, 19.5 billion have not been paid, the department added.

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Thus, the FSSP collected two revolving fines imposed in 2021 and 2023 in full: more than 7.2 billion rubles and more than 4.6 billion rubles, respectively, and more than 1.5 billion rubles were recovered from a fine of more than 21 billion rubles imposed in 2022, the department noted.

The company voluntarily paid fines of only 6 million rubles in 2021 and 6 million in 2022.

To date, Roskomnadzor has not conducted any dialogue with the company, they concluded. Google demonstrates systematic disregard for Russian law, which is confirmed by the selective payment of fines, according to State Duma deputy Anton Nemkin. Such tactics undermine the company's credibility and call into question its willingness to conduct honest business in Russia, he noted.

The prospects for Google LLC to pay the remaining part of the fines directly depend on the decision of the head office and the availability of available funds that can be sent to Russia without violating sanctions legislation, explained David Kononov, head of the Anti-Crisis and Bankruptcy practice at Lemchik, Krupsky and Partners law firm, who is familiar with the course of the trial.

The lawyer noted that according to the results of the inventory, a small amount of property worth about 30 million rubles was found in the Russian "daughter". Obviously, this is not enough to repay the register of creditors' claims, which amounts to more than 50 billion rubles. And this is not counting the huge fines for blocking accounts of Russian TV channels.

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Payment structure: Russian authorities collected 13 billion rubles in fines from Google