Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) has been found guilty of violating competition law in Russia, the Russian news site Interfax reported, citing a spokesperson for the country’s antitrust regulator.
The ruling comes in response to an antitrust lawsuit filed by Russia’s biggest internet firm, Yandex NV (NASDAQ:YNDX) earlier this year. In the complaint, Yandex said services such as search, map and email should be unbundled from Google's Android mobile operating system.
The Federal Antimonopoly Service will write to Google and Yandex within 10 days about recommended actions, according to Interfax.
Several device makers that pre-install Yandex apps notified the company last year that they were no longer able to pre-install Yandex services, such as Yandex’s search and map apps on Google’s Android devices, prompting Yandex to make a complaint to the antitrust authorities.
Shares of Google fell 0.6% to $651.21 at 1:15 p.m. in New York., while those of Yandex, which operates a rival search engine, climbed 6.8% to $12.04.
Google has been facing mounting regulatory woes in Europe. In April, the European Commission opened a formal investigation in response to antitrust complaints against the company