Kazakhstan: Antimonopoly Probe Launched into Russian Railways Subsidiary Over Inflated Rail Scale Testing Fees
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In Petropavlovsk, the antimonopoly agency has opened an investigation into suspected overpricing for wagon electronic scale inspections — specifically, the service of providing a control load for equipment calibration, Orda.kz reports.
According to the Agency for the Protection and Development of Competition, the case began after a complaint from Agrimer Mamlutka. The company alleged that since January 2025, the Petropavlovsk branch of the South Ural Railway (a division of Russian Railways) increased the service fee by nearly 10% to 845,000 tenge.
In other regions, the same inspection costs roughly half that amount — around 391,000 tenge.
Following an unscheduled audit covering 2024 and early 2025, the agency found grounds to suspect a violation of the law.
“The analysis revealed signs of antimonopoly legislation violations — specifically, the establishment of a monopolistically high price,” the agency stated.
The formal investigation is expected to take between three and five months.
Original Author: Artyom Volkov
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