Google's Russian Unit Paid 14.7 Billion Rubles in Fines for Parent

Russia's bankrupt Google subsidiary has been used to settle a large part of the fines imposed on its American parent. Receiver Valery Talyarovsky told a court hearing that about 14.7 billion rubles were written off by the Federal Bailiff Service to enforce administrative penalties against Google LLC.

According to Talyarovsky, a little over 16.7 billion rubles had arrived in the account of OOO Google by September 20. Overall, more than 18.8 billion rubles flowed into the bankruptcy estate. The remainder went to the tax service for current payments, and more than 400 million rubles were paid out as wages to former employees of the Russian company.

A long record of penalties

Google has repeatedly been held administratively liable in Russia, notably for failing to remove banned content and for not complying with the so-called landing law. Turnover-based fines in the billions of rubles were imposed. In late 2021, a court ordered the company to pay 7.2 billion rubles for a repeated violation of the rules on restricting access to unlawful content, and a further 21.7 billion rubles was later collected for not deleting fake information.

In March 2025, Moscow's Chertanovsky court upheld an 8 billion ruble fine for failing to pay 4 billion rubles, which itself had been awarded for not settling a 2 billion ruble penalty from the antimonopoly service FAS.

Bankruptcy background

Moscow's Arbitration Court declared OOO Google bankrupt in October 2023 and opened receivership proceedings. The initial supervision phase had begun in November 2022.

The disclosure shows how the proceeding has become a channel for enforcing penalties against the parent company, while the Russian entity's creditors and former staff share the same pool of funds. The receiver's statement does not indicate whether further collections are expected.