MOSCOW COURT FINES GOOGLE FOR FAILING TO REMOVE ILLEGAL CONTENT

MOSCOW, AUGUST 12 /SRNA – RIA Novosti/ – The Tagansky District Court of Moscow has imposed two fines on the US technology giant Google totaling 7.6 million rubles /EUR 79,600/ for failing to remove information banned in Russia.

“Google has been found guilty of an administrative offense under an article of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation - failure to remove information prohibited in Russia, and fined 3.8 million rubles,” the ruling stated.

Two administrative offense reports were filed against the company under the same article, bringing the total fine to 7.6 million rubles.

Roskomnadzor, the Russian Federal Service for monitoring, controlling, and censoring mass media, telecommunications, and IT said it had repeatedly ordered Google to remove the prohibited content, but the company failed to comply, prompting administrative offense proceedings.