OREANDA-NEWS. September 14, 2009. The Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service in the Sverdlovsk region (the Sverdlovsk OFAS Russia) initiated a case upon the signs of violating Clause 1 Part 1 Article 11 of the Federal Law "On Protection of Competition" against "Ural-Avstro-Invest" Ltd., "Nordus Hotel" CJSC, a group of persons including "Euro Asian Managing Company [Evro-Aziatskaya Upravlyauschaya Kompania]" Ltd., "Intensivnik" CJSC - hotels "Premier-Hotel" Ltd., and "City-Hotel" Ltd., "Yekaterinburg-Central Hotel" CJSC, "Grand Avenue Hotel" OJSC and "Iset' Hotel" Ltd., reported the press-centre of FAS Russia. 

OFAS Russia suspects that the the above hotels violated the antimonopoly legislation by engaging in concerted actions from 1st June to 30th June 2009 (including the summits of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization ("SOC-2009") and BRIC) that resulted in fixing (increasing) prices (rates) for hotel services.

The case will be heard on 30th September 2009.