OREANDA-NEWS. September 15, 2014. Moscow Arbitration Court dismissed the claim of “Regional Centre for Rehabilitation Means” Ltd., “Aprel” Ltd. and “Predgorie Kazkaza” Trading House” Ltd. to invalidate FAS decision on an antimonopoly case.

On 12th November 2013, the FAS Commission found that “Regional Centre for Rehabilitation Means” Ltd. (“KTsSR” Ltd.), “Medexpress” Ltd., “Region Logistic” Ltd., “Aprel” Ltd., “Predgorie Kazkaza” Trading House” Ltd., “Bashkiria Centre for Rehabilitation Means” Ltd. and an individual entrepreneur Ulanovskaya violated Clause 2 Part 1 Article 11 of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition” – concluding and taking part in an agreement (cartel) that resulted in maintaining prices in the course of open auctions for supplying rehabilitation means for the disabled.

“Medexpress” Ltd., “Region Logistic” Ltd., “Aprel” Ltd., “Predgorie Kazkaza” Trading House” Ltd., “Bashkiria Centre for Rehabilitation Means” Ltd. and an individual entrepreneur Ulanovskaya took part in the auctions to ensure that “KTsSR” Ltd. would win with the minimum reduction of the reserved (maximum) price of a government contract.

“Control over competitive bidding in health care and social security is one of our priorities. The judgment of Arbitration Court is an important step towards establishing unified judicial practice on cartel cases. FAS will continue systemic efforts in this area”, point out the Head of FAS Anti-Cartel Department, Andrey Tenischev.