MOSCOW – Google’s Russian subsidiary has filed a lawsuit in opposition to Russian state bailiffs, court docket paperwork present, in a 12 months that has seen the unit file for chapter in Russia and have greater than 7.7 billion roubles ($127 million) in funds seized.
Alphabet Inc.‘s Google declined to remark.
In Might, Russian bailiffs seized funds from Google that it had been ordered to pay late final 12 months. A month earlier, Tsargrad, a Russian Orthodox tv channel blocked by YouTube, mentioned bailiffs had seized 1 billion roubles from Google.
Google’s subsidiary filed for chapter in June after saying that authorities had seized its checking account, making it not possible to pay workers and distributors.
Court docket paperwork revealed on Oct. 4 confirmed the Moscow Arbitration Court docket had accepted an software from Google LLC dated Sept. 30 and would contemplate the case.
The court docket listed the Moscow division of Russia’s Federal Bailiffs Service and one among its senior officers because the defendants.
Russia’s Federal Bailiffs Service didn't instantly reply to a request for remark.
The RIA information company reported in August that the identical Moscow court docket had rejected Google’s demand that the 1 billion roubles seized within the Tsargrad case be returned, with the TV channel nonetheless unable to entry all Google companies.
Tsargrad TV is owned by businessman Konstantin Malofeev, who was sanctioned by the USA and European Union in 2014 over accusations that he funded pro-Moscow separatists combating in Ukraine, one thing he denies. Russia considers such Western sanctions unlawful.
Tsargrad TV had no speedy remark.
($1 = 60.5000 roubles)
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