Russian
energy giant Gazprom has increased the amount of its claims against NJSC
Naftogaz of Ukraine from $23.837 billion to $29.2 billion, according to
Gazprom's Quarterly Report.
The document
states that on June 12, 2015, Gazprom submitted its statement of defense to the
Stockholm arbitration in response to Naftogaz's claim and lodged a
counter-claim, which increased the sum claimed from Ukraine to $29.2 billion.
Hearings on the
case are scheduled for February-March 2016, and the verdict is expected at the
end of June 2016, the report said.
Gazprom is
seeking to force Naftogaz to pay a fine for insufficient purchases of gas
contracted in 2012 in keeping with the "take-or-pay" rule and debts
for gas supplies in 2014.
As UNIAN
reported earlier, in June 2014, Naftogaz
lodged a lawsuit against Gazprom with the Arbitration Institute of the
Stockholm Chamber of Commerce.
In addition to
the revision of prices of Russian gas, which rose sharply in the second quarter
of 2014 by more than a third, to $485 per 1,000 cubic meters, Naftogaz also
demands in the claim that Gazprom refund Ukraine $6 billion that the Ukrainian
company said it had overpaid for Russian gas since 2010.
The total amount
of Naftogaz's claims against Gazprom is $16 billion.
Ukraine is
seeking the comprehensive revision of the terms of its gas contracts with
Gazprom signed way back in 2009.
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