OREANDA-NEWS. December 25, 2009. The 9th Arbitration Appeal Court allowed the appeal of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia) and revoked the judgment of the Court of primary jurisdiction on invalidating the decision of the antimonopoly authority to hold "LUKOIL" OJSC administratively liable for failure to present information upon a FAS Russia's request, reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.

On 1st June 2009, under Article 25 of the Federal Law "On Protection of Competition", FAS Russia sent a letter to "LUKOIL" OJSC requesting information (data) and documents necessary for the antimonopoly authority to consider an antimonopoly case initiated against "LUKOIL" OJSC in the beginning of 2009.

"LUKOIL" OJSC failed to present information according to the request, which constituted the grounds for making the decision about administrative charges against the company under Article 19.8 of the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Violations.