OREANDA-NEWS. July 12, 2011. The First Arbitration Appeal Court confirmed legitimacy of two determinations issued by the Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service in the Marii El Republic (Marii El OFAS Russia) on imposing a fine upon “Marienergosbyt” OJSC under Article 14.31 of the Code of the Russian Federation on Antimonopoly Violations for the total amount over 26 million Rubles, reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.

“Marienergosbyt” OJSC abused dominant position on the market of buying and selling (supplying) electric power by unreasonably sending notifications to customers and a network organization about restricting supply of electric power to industrial facilities owned by customers.

The Commission of Marii El OFAS Russia decided that such actions of the provider of last resort infringe the interests of customers and found that “Marienergosbyt” OJSC violated Part 1 Article 10 of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition” should be held administratively liable.

For violating the antimonopoly law, Marii El OFAS Russia issued two determinations about imposing fines upon “Marienergosbyt” OJSC for the total amount over 26 million Rubles.

The company filed lawsuits challenging the fines but Arbitration Courts of two instances confirmed validity of the conclusions made by the antimonopoly body that “Marienergosbyt” OJSC abused market dominance employment of administrative sanctions.