OREANDA-NEWS. June 07, 2013. The Department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia) for Control over Housing & Utilities, Construction and Real Estate found that the State Procurement Department of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation and Moscow – Oka Basin Department of the Federal Agency for Water Resources violated Article 17 of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition”.

The Ministry unreasonably refused to allow “South-Urals Specialized Centre for Utilization” CJSC to bid at the auctions for selling released movable military property. The Basin Department restricted access of “Town-Planning Laboratory” Ltd. to the auctions.

“FAS will inform the Ministry of Nature and the Ministry of Defence about the committed antimonopoly violations and request to eliminate them”, said the Head of FAS Department for Control over Housing & Utilities, Construction and Real Estate, Vadim Solovyov.