The Arbitration Court of the Urals District recognized MUE Vodokanal as guilty of violating the Law on Protection of Competition. The claim against the enterprise was filed by Sverdlovsk OFAS.

"The violation was expressed in the inclusion in the drafts of contracts for cold water supply and sanitation with the executors of public services, in particular with the TSZh Volgogradskoye-202, conditions on the boundaries of operational liability that are unprofitable for them and which do not comply with the rules for the maintenance of common property in an apartment building, the subsequent non-fulfillment of the warning issued by the Sverdlovsk OFAS Russia, "the press service of OFAS.

Vodokanal passed three judicial instances, but everywhere the court satisfied the claim of antimonopolists. As a result, MUP was fined 74.2 million rubles.