MOSCOW. Jan 17 (Interfax) - A Moscow justice of the peace has issued so-called revenue-based fines to the companies Hetzner and DigitalOcean for failing to fulfil their obligations on organizing the online operations of a foreign entity in Russia, the court's press service told Interfax.
According to rulings issued by Alexandra Mikhaleva, acting justice of the peace for Judicial District 422 of Moscow's Tagansky District, Hetzner Online GmbH was fined 117,700,731 rubles and DigitalOcean LLC was fined 30,810,055 rubles.
Seven other foreign companies - Bluehost Inc., Kamatera Inc., Ionos Inc., DreamHost LLC, GoDaddy.com LLC, WPEngine Inc., and HostGator.com LLC - were each fined six million rubles.
All the companies were found guilty of failing to fulfil their obligations envisaged by legislation on the online operations of foreign entities on Russian territory.
Such violations are punishable by a fine for legal entities in the amount of 1/15 to 1/10 of the total revenue generated by the sale of all goods (work, services) for the calendar year preceding the year in which the administrative violation was found, but not less than six million rubles.
All the fined companies provide cloud and web infrastructure services.