The Russian company was accused of operating in Russia without a branch or representative office.
Amazon Web Services, a subsidiary of Amazon, was fined in Russia more than 200 million rubles for operating in the country without a branch. This was confirmed by the decision of the magistrate of the court district N422 of the Tagansky district of Moscow, announced on Wednesday, January 17.
“Amazon Web Services Inc. was sentenced to an administrative fine in the amount of 200 million 469 thousand 997 rubles 13 kopecks,” the report said.
The company was found guilty of failure to fulfill the obligations established by law on the activities of foreign persons on the Internet in the territory of the Russian Federation (Part 2 of Article 13.49 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation).
This violation may be punished by a fine in the amount of 1/15 to 1/10 of the total amount of income received from the sale of all goods (work, services) for the calendar year prior to the year in which the violation was found. administrative offense , but not less than 6 million rubles
The company, according to the verdict, operated in Russia without a branch or representative office and ignored relevant warnings from Roskomnadzor.
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As we have already written, the Tagansky Court of Moscow considers Google “guilty of an administrative offense”: for refusing to remove the real facts about Russia’s war against Ukraine. Google LLC was sentenced to an administrative fine of four million rubles.
Source: korrespondent
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