OREANDA-NEWS. February 04, 2013. The Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service in the Kemerovo Region (Kemerovo OFAS Russia) received the full text of the judgment of the Court of First regarding a claim of “Kaskad-Energo” OJSC. The company was challenging a determination on imposing a 1,211,930 Rubles fine at Kemerovo Regional Arbitration Court, reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.

Earlier Kemerovo OFAS Russia investigated an antimonopoly case and, based on its outcome, initiated administrative proceedings against the company. The Law on heating supply gives an exhaustive list of incidents when commercial accounting of heating energy and heat carrier by calculation is allowed. However, in September 2011 “Kaskad-Energo” OJSC used the calculation method for charging managing companies and homeowners associations in Anzhero-Sudzhensk for the consumed heating energy and the heat carrier.

“Kaskad-Energo” OJSC repeatedly came into the view of the antimonopoly body”, the Head of Kemerovo OFAS Russia, Natalia Kukharskaya, commented the situation. “The fine was calculated in view of the aggravating circumstances as the company had already been held administratively liable for such actions. The violation related to the activities of nearly all managing companies in Anzhero-Sudzhensk, representing the interests of ordinary residents. The judgment of Kemerovo Regional Arbitration Court is important as it not only fully confirmed the violation but also showed that the size of the fine was determined correctly”.