Telegram said the company has no assets, offices or employees in Russia. Earlier this year, Russian bailiffs lifted the fines against the courier.
“Telegram has no assets, offices, employees or equipment in Russia. Without any presence there, we cannot understand why the fines for Telegram and other companies were lifted,” Reuters quoted a Telegram representative as saying.
On January 1, Interfax wrote, citing data from the Federal Bailiff Service bank, about the termination of enforcement proceedings against Telegram, Google, Meta*, TikTok and YouTube. Companies were subject to fines worth billions and millions of rubles for not eliminating what was prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Telegram suggested that the fines could be canceled due to the lack of assets in Russia that could be forcibly confiscated.
The court has repeatedly fined Telegram for refusing to remove prohibited information. For example, in November 2023, a Moscow court imposed a fine of 4 million rubles for failing to remove, at the request of Roskomnadzor, information about the Russian military and possible methods of cashing Pushkin cards.
*Recognized as an extremist organization whose activities are prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation
Author:
Akhmed Sadulayev
Source: RB
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