The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine fined operators of filling stations for UAH 41 million for an agreed increase in prices for liquefied gas in late summer of 2017. This was reported by the press service of the department, transmits UNN.

"It is recognized by the violation of the legislation on the protection of economic competition, provided for by paragraph 1 of Article 50 and part three of Article 6 of the Law of Ukraine" On the Protection of Economic Competition ", increase in prices for liquefied hydrocarbon gas as motor fuel (LPG) when it is sold in retail in August 2017 , despite the fact that the analysis of the situation on the market refutes the existence of objective reasons for the commission of such actions by the defendants, "the decision says..

The corresponding document was adopted by the regulator at a meeting on Thursday, June 21.

In particular, the group "Nadezhda" (PE Nadezhda, OOO Eurostandart-Avtogaz, L. "," Gas post-office "," Mounting a commission "," Nadezhda Retail "and" Nadezhda-Zakarpattya ") was fined for the amount of 11.971 million UAH.

In turn, the WOG group (OOO Import Trans Service, VOG Retail and Naftotrade Resources) must pay UAH 14.793 million.

The group of companies OKKO (Private Enterprise OKKO-Business Contract and OKKO-Contract, OOO OKKO-Retail and OKKO-Shid) the committee decided to fine UAH 6.414 million UAH.

In addition, Avantage 7 LLC will have to pay a fine of UAH 3.271 million, OOO Factoring Group - UAH 4.548 million.

According to AMCU, in August 2017 there were no objective reasons for a synchronous increase in prices for liquefied gas.