Jasmine IM and Jimm Multi removed from Google Play by Mail.ru Group request

That night, two of the most popular ICQ-enabled clients were removed from Google Play: Jimm Multi and Jasmine IM.
Proofs are simple:
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.net.jimm
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.ivansuper.jasmin

Now you can download Jasmine IM (.apk) from jasmine.im

According to the developer Jasmine IM, the condition for the return of the program to the Market is the removal of the ICQ protocol.
Whether other alternative clients will be prosecuted is a major modern issue. AOL's passion seems to be back.
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UPD:
Sergey Kravtsov, CEO of a company developing QIP, comments:

Well, as it is clear that users will find where to settle down. Strange decisions of course are made. It seems that ICQ decided with its own hands to simply strangle all the beautiful things that surrounded them and give the competitors just not so many of their users =)))

The director of the Instant Messaging Mail.Ru Group, Igor Yermakov, comments:

Upon ICQ request, a client was deleted from Google Play, which violated the license agreement and offered users to download an alternative ICQ client for money, without having any agreements with ICQ. The application has become unavailable only for new users to download, for older users it works. Technically, we do not block the application.

The situation with Jimm is a misunderstanding. We, together with the developer, solve this issue in order to return the application as soon as possible. ”

It seems that Yermakov is inclined to agree with his counterpart on the market about the possible damage to the number of protocol users.

Nevertheless, both the commentators on Roem and I personally have a question:

It is not clear where and what was offered for money. Jasmine IM has always been a free client and did not contain advertising, and the donate version did not contain the client itself and was just a way to thank the author at will without changing the functionality of the application itself.

Previously, AOL methodically blocked alternative clients at the protocol level. From the comments of the Jimm project team, we also learn that today's incident is an administrative accident, an initiative of the Israeli office.
This is the second ICQ pack in communications with the Israeli office, which is made public. Last time, the head office launched AskoAgent without warning Tel Aviv marketing.