The OAO
LUKOIL Press Service announces that the judgment by the Federal Antimonopoly
Service (FAS) handed down on September 24, 2009 in relation to OOO
LUKOIL-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez and a regulation imposing a penalty in the
amount of RUR 2,409,298,055.78 were officially ruled illegal and invalidated
today by the Arbitration Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Region.
According
to the judgment by the Russian Federation FAS of September 24, 2009 the actions
by OAO LUKOIL, OOO LUKOIL-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez, OOO
LUKOIL-Permnefteorgsintez and OOO LUKOIL-Ukhtaneftepererabotka were found
violating antitrust legislation.