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The State Executive Service of Ukraine opened the proceeding of a fine and penalty in the amount of 172 billion hryvnias with PJSC Gazprom and the arrest of the company's property in the country imposed by the Antimonopoly Committee (AMCU). This was reported by the "Mirror of the Week" with reference to the press secretary of the AMCU Mikhail Novitsky.

"The committee had already been addressed to the resolution on opening production and the seizure of property. There, of course, will not be for such a large amount there, so the committee’s leadership is considering the possibility of collecting funds in a different way," Novitsky said.

In October, the antitrust department filed a lawsuit in Kyiv on the forced recovery of a fine and penalty. On December 5, the court satisfied the requirements of the AMCU and decided to recover 172 billion hryvnias from Gazprom.

In February 2017, the Kyiv Court of Appeal upheld the decision to recover funds from the company. In March, Gazprom appealed this decision on a cassation order.

On January 22, 2016, the AMCU fined Gazprom by 85.9 billion hryvnias for abuse of the monopoly position in the gas transit market.

On April 12, Gazprom "tried to challenge the cash in the economic court of Kiev, but the company refused to accept the complaint of the company. Gazprom appealed to the court decision on the return of the claim in the highest authorities, but the courts of senior authorities, including the Supreme Court of Ukraine , recognized the decision legal.