We were cheated: “Zakarpatgaz” is among the 16 regional gas companies that were fined by the AMCU for fraud in bills

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".