The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine imposed fines amounting to UAH 278 million on 16 regional gas companies of the RGC group owned by billionaire Dmytro Firtash. The reason is the improper overcharging for gas supply to household consumers. The offenders were obliged to recalculate.
The AMCU Chairman Yuri Terentyev wrote about it on Facebook.
The AMCU found that these 16 groups of companies, from December 2015 to August 2019, occupied a monopolistic (dominant) position in the markets for integrated gas distribution and supply services within their respective territories. And from October 2018 to August 2019, these companies overchaged the consumers for natural gas supplied, that is, they abused their monopoly position.
The Antimonopoly Committee notes that the actions of these companies have led to infringement of consumers’ interests that would have been impossible if there was a competition in the market.
The AMCU fined the following groups:
Vinnytsigaz – UAH 21 million
Volyngaz – UAH 13 million
Dnipropetrovskgaz – UAH 34 million
Zhytomyrgaz – UAH 11 million
Zakarpatgaz – UAH 18 million
Zaporizhzgaz – UAH 14 million
Ivano-Frankivskgaz – UAH 10 million
Kyivoblgaz – UAH 49 million
Lvivgaz – UAH 13 million
Mykolayivgaz – UAH 14 million
Rivnegaz – UAH 5 million
Sumygaz – UAH 10 million
Kharkivgaz – UAH 33 million
Khmelnytskgaz – UAH 12 million
Chernivtsigaz – UAH 7 million
Chernihivgaz – UAH 13 million
The AMCU obliged the company "to stop violations of the legislation on the protection of economic competition; to rectify the consequences of the violations of the legislation on the protection of economic competition by recalculting the actual volume of consumption (distribution) of natural gas on the basis of meter reading, starting from October 2018".
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