European Commission officials have searched the office of Lietuvos dujos, Lithuania's core gas supplier in which Russia's gas giant Gazprom owns over 37 percent, on suspicion of EU antimonopoly law violations, spokesperson Sigita Petrikonyte-Jurkuniene said on Wednesday.
"EC officials have searched the office of Lietuvos dujos," Petrikonyte-Jurkuniene told RIA Novosti without elaborating.
The commission initiated inspections of companies active in the supply, transmission and storage of natural gas in several member states on Tuesday, including Gazprom subsidiaries in Germany and the Czech Republic. It believes the companies might have been engaged in anticompetitive practices in breach of EU antitrust rules or had information relating to such practices.
Gazprom has promised to make an official statement on Wednesday.
