Moscow court helps Kyiv fine Russian air carrier for flights to Crimea despite Ukraine ban

"The decision of the Economic Court of Kyiv region, dated September 20, 2017, satisfied the claim of the Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea on recovery of more than UAH 10 million from the Russian air carrier, which carries out daily flights to the temporarily occupied Crimea," the report said.

The prosecutor's office emphasizes that the air carrier has paid no money for the received air navigation services in the international airspace over the Black Sea within the Simferopol flight information region.

In the procedure of mutual international legal assistance, judicial bodies of the Russian Federation have been involved in the trial. Thus, the Moscow Arbitration Court executed the order of the Ukrainian court by handing to the defendant a copy of the ruling on the launch of the trial and the prosecutor's statement of claim, according to the press service.

Read alsoNaftogaz sues Russia over seizure of $5 bln worth of assets in Crimea"Proper notification of the offender air carrier on the requirements of the prosecutor's office of the Autonomy gives the Ukrainian side an opportunity to launch a mechanism for collecting the specified sum from the debtor in the territory of the Russian Federation," ARC Prosecutor Gunduz Mamedov said.

Read alsoUkraine’s border guards see Russia continuing to extract gas on Ukrainian shelf in Black SeaAccording to the prosecutor, the courts for the first time ruled under the procedure adopted earlier by the ARC Prosecutor's Office to attract air carriers to responsibility for flights over Crimea that were carried out in violation of the Convention on International Civil Aviation of 1944 and the Multilateral Agreement Relating to Route Charges of  1981.