Moscow court imposes revenue-based fine of over 4.6 bln rubles on Google for repeated failure to remove banned content

MOSCOW. Dec 20 (Interfax) - Moscow's Tagansky District Court has imposed a 4.6-billion-ruble fine on Google for repeatedly failing to remove banned content, including fake information about the special military operation and LGBT content, the court told Interfax.

"Google LLC is to be fined 4,611,738,636 rubles and 60 kopecks," the court said on Wednesday.

The court found Google guilty of repeatedly failing to remove banned content.

Such an offense is punishable with a revenue-based fine on legal entities, ranging from "1/20 to 1/10 of the overall revenue from the sales of all goods (work, services) in the calendar year preceding the year of the administrative offense, or for the part of the calendar year preceding the date of the detected administrative offense in which the administrative offense was detected, if the offender did not sell goods (work, services) in the previous calendar year, but at least four million rubles."