The management of Gazprom doubted that the authorship of the decision of the Stockholm Arbitration in the dispute with Naftogaz "on gas transit" belongs to the arbitrators. In this regard, an additional examination of the text was carried out, which showed that "a significant part of the arbitral award was written not by arbitrators, but by another person," RIA Novosti reports.. "Gazprom" appealed to the Court of Appeal of Svea County with a statement on the complete cancellation of the arbitration award.

"Obviously, no one has the right to substitute arbitrators," the company said, adding that the conclusion of the world-recognized expert linguist was "new evidence of serious violations of Swedish law and the arbitration rules of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce". The substitution of arbitrators is unacceptable, the company believes, since their decision is very important for the parties to the dispute. Interference in this process violates the arbitration agreement.