Russian Google paid 16.8 billion rubles in fines for Google

Google LLC, the Russian subsidiary of the American Google LLC, has paid 16.8 billion rubles in fines accrued in Russia. This was stated at a court hearing on October 28 by Valery Talyarovsky, the bankruptcy trustee of the company.

"On September 20 of this year, just over 16.7 billion rubles were credited to the settlement account of Google LLC, of which about 14.7 billion rubles were written off by the Federal Bailiff Service," RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

It is specified that more than 2.1 billion rubles were transferred directly to the FSSP according to the executive documents in favor of the company. In total, the bankruptcy estate of Google LLC received more than 18.8 billion rubles.

The remaining funds were used, in particular, to repay the current requirements of the Federal Tax Service and to pay salaries to former employees. More than 400 million rubles were spent for these purposes, she added. "Газета.Ru ".

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But this is only a small fraction of the debts of an American company — do creditors have any chance of recovering their funds?

On October 7, the magistrate of the Tagansky district of Moscow fined Google and TikTok 10 million rubles each. Separately, Google was also found guilty under Part 1 of Article 20.25 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation ("Evading administrative punishment"). In this case, the court imposed an additional administrative fine of 200 thousand rubles on the company.