Amicable settlement possible with Google - FAS chief
MOSCOW. March 1 (Interfax) - It might be possible to reach a settlement out of court with Google, Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) chief Igor Artemyev told reporters.
"We work on the assumption that this could in theory happen at any moment. But, so we can get our bearings, we need one thing, which is for the company to say 'yes, we agree, we have breached such and such a provision of the competition law'. We could start negotiating from that, because we are a government agency, we don't want to turn into a corrupt one which takes bribes in return for dropping or reducing a fine," he said.
Nobody - not the agency's head or some other top official - could reach such a decision on their own, he said.
"So as concerns Google or anybody else, then please, we have no objections," he said.
"If at any stage in the litigation they suddenly say to us that they want this, then we'll look of course at the stage we're at, how one court case or another ends, and we'll reach our decision, but this is not impossible," he said.
