Yatsenyuk ordered the Antimonopoly Committee to investigate the case of Gazprom
Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk ordered the new head of the antitrust division to make much effort to connect to the responsibility of the Russian "Gazprom" in the case of abuse of a monopoly position in the Ukrainian market.
"The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine appealed to the Antimonopoly Committee with a request to launch antitrust investigation against the Russian gas monopoly" Gazprom ". I saw the official letter about the start of this investigation. Let me remind you that the same trial conducted by the European Commission and ask the head of the antitrust division, together with our European partners put a lot of effort to connect to the responsibility of the Russian gas monopolist "Gazprom" for abuse of its monopoly position in the Ukrainian market ", - said Yatsenyuk on the first day of the week, representing the employees of the antitrust division's newly appointed head Yury Terentyev.
He clarified that the total penalty can reach up to 10% of total revenue, which was received by the company on the territory of Ukraine.
This Yatsenyuk has set the task for the new Director to focus on the investigation of monopolistic collusion market power. According to his statement, the regional gas organization in fact and legally abuse their monopoly position on the market. As noticed Yatsenyuk, the same situation has developed around the activities of the electricity organizations, which, in the opinion of the Prime Minister, should also become the object of attention of the antitrust division.
besides, the Prime Minister tried to convince the head of Antimonopoly Department demonopolizing market drugs.