KIEV, Jan. 22 - Ukraine’s competition authority Friday imposed a record fine of $3.4 billion against the Russian natural gas company Gazprom for abusing its monopoly position while shipping gas via the country in 2009-2015.
"A decision was just approved stipulating that Gazprom had abused its monopoly position while shipping its gas via the territory of Ukraine,” Yuriy Terentiev, the head of the Anti-Monopoly Committee, said in a statement. “The size of the fine is 86 billion hryvnias,” or $3.4 billion.
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