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Google LLC’s lawyer! for Radio 44 LLC’s lawsuit decides to take on the bank
Google LLC!’s lawyer for Radio 44 insisted on a court request from Surgutneftegazbank and Energotransbank! for documents constituting a banking secret. They must confirm the fact of cooperation between! Radio dataset 44 LLC and the American IT giant. which the plaintiff has already proven with the original contract with Google Ireland Ltd. as well as the presence of SWIFT payments from
“Radio 44” is a producer of several YouTube
channels. and since 2012. a participant in the Google AdSense affiliate program. which allowed it to receive a portion of the revenue from advertising in the company’s content. In the spring of 2022. the American
IT giant disabled monetization in the Russian Federation. but “Radio 44” continued to receive revenue from advertising in other countries. but in the summer of 2023. Google blocked the “Radio 44” account in AdSense. thereby depriving the Russian ranking tracking keyword research producer of income. In July 2024. “Radio 44” filed a lawsuit against Google LLC. its Russian subsidiary OOO “Google” and Google Ireland Ltd (the latter is the company that manages the Google AdSense service).
The court received the necessary answers
by the beginning of the hearing. which took place last week. on April 16.
“The plaintiff. in compliance with Federal Law
No. 173-FZ “On Currency Regulation and Currency Control”. provided the bank with documents showing who the parties to the transfer were and under what agreement the funds were received. and the bank conducted an audit and noted that the counterparty was Google Ireland based on the AdSense terms. Due to the actions of the plaintiff and the bank. it fans data becomes obvious that the terms of Google and YouTube have nothing to do with the case. otherwise these terms would have been in the currency transaction. Therefore. the plaintiff did not provide these documents to the court and they were requested.” said Pavel Bagryantsev.