Courts are scarier than sanctions. Microsoft has restored service to Nayara Energy

American Microsoft has restored service to Indian oil refinery Nayara Energy, which was hit by EU sanctions, Reuters reports.

One of the shareholders of the Indian refining company Nayara Energy is Rosneft, which led to the refinery being included in the 18th package of EU sanctions.

Against this backdrop, American Microsoft announced that it was terminating service to Nayara Energy. The Indian company immediately filed a lawsuit in the Delhi High Court against the American IT giant for unilaterally cutting off access to key services.

In court documents, Nayara Energy said Microsoft abruptly and unilaterally suspended access to critical services, restricting the use of data, proprietary tools and products despite the fact that licenses were fully paid for. At the same time, according to Nayara Energy's lawyers, Microsoft was guided by its own free interpretation of recent EU sanctions.

The sanctions come exclusively from the EU, while Microsoft is a company headquartered in the US, and neither US nor Indian law requires it to stop servicing the Indian company, Nayara Energy lawyers clarified.

The company said it was a "disturbing trend" of international corporations extending foreign legal norms to jurisdictions where they do not apply.

At the same time, Nayara Energy threatened to transfer all IT contracts to a local Indian company, Rediff.com.