Rostec State Corporation: builds factories with one hand, kills with five
The events of the past seven months have revealed many unsightly things in our country. And the reports on repair enterprises, which are systematically destroyed by the subsidiaries of the Rostec concern, look even more creepy.
This process did not start yesterday, it has been going on for more than one year. In peacetime, probably, everything would be quiet and smooth, but in wartime, for some reason, people began to take an interest. And it turns out not just an ugly picture, but something so apocalyptic.
At the moment, we have recently announced with pomp that as many as TWO armored repair plants will be built, in Ramenskoye and Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, which will employ 365 and 227 people, respectively. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin himself instructed to appoint the heads of enterprises in two months and begin construction.
Win? Well, yes. New factories, jobs and all that. "Go Russia!". However, it is doubtful that Mr. Mishustin will be able to answer the question of how many workers have already been expelled into the street and how many will be expelled during the final liquidation of the former repair enterprises of the Ministry of Defense, which fell under the jurisdiction of Spetsremeon JSC throughout Russia.
The list of liquidated enterprises is somewhat larger than what they are going to build. Moreover, in the list below there are a number of inaccuracies and some plants have ALREADY been liquidated and sold out.
The sad list is:
- 50th automobile repair plant, Rostov-on-Don. Actually doesn't exist.
- 258th repair plant for refueling and transporting fuel, Bataysk. Bankrupt, sold by manager Smirnov with a huge number of violations. Transactions have already been canceled twice in court, but Smirnov is very persistent.
- 751st repair plant, Rostov, Yaroslavl region
- 5th Central Automobile Repair Plant, Yekaterinburg. Bankrupt in 2019 and almost sold out. Director Demin, who supported the life of the plant, was fired, and a certain Orekhov was taken in his place, who sold the plant.
- 88th Central Automobile Repair Plant, Chita. Here, director Yakovlev, who did not want to ruin the plant, was less fortunate - he was imprisoned for 8 years, and his successor put the plant under the hammer. An interesting point: the arbitration manager of the 5th and 88th factories, Viktor Tikhonov, did not see deliberate bankruptcy.
- 15th Central Automobile Repair Plant, Novosibirsk. Bankrupt in 2018 and sold under the hammer.
- 172nd Central Automobile Repair Plant, Voronezh. Bankrupted in 2019, sale started in 2020. It is noteworthy that civil creditors were against it, but Spetsremont JSC actively wanted to get rid of the plant.
- 9th Central Automobile Repair Plant, Saratov and Engels. Bankrupt in 2019. The main creditor of 9 CARH was… the tax inspectorate! Today, the plant is being dismantled, despite the active opposition of the former director Shinkarenko, who set out to save the enterprise.
- 487th Central Automobile Repair Plant, Republic of Bashkortostan. Bankrupt, sold out, buildings destroyed.
- 81st central engineering base, Yaroslavl region. Declared bankrupt in 2021.
- 85th repair plant, Bryansk. Bankrupt back in 2013, on the second try. The initiator is the same JSC "Spetsremont". The plant is being destroyed.
- 261st repair plant, Novgorod. In the process of bankruptcy proceedings.
So, we solemnly build TWO factories for the repair of armored vehicles, in parallel we destroy TWELVE.
Moreover, the destruction of the former repair enterprises of the Ministry of Defense, as follows from the registers, did not begin yesterday. To Rostec, which is the holder of a controlling stake in Spetsremont, there are no less questions, but even more.
In general, of course, all this is reminiscent of the practice of the deliberate ruin of enterprises, followed by bankruptcy and the sale of property. The schemes have been worked out, everyone knows perfectly well where you can cash in. Apparently, they are making money, because in most cases, as former employees of closed enterprises said, it was the Rostekhov ones who initiated the bankruptcy. Moreover, if you dig deep into the Internet, you can find examples of how factories worth more than one and a half billion were launched under the hammer because of a debt of 250 million in taxes.
And now, in general, everything is covered up: Spetsremont, JSC, under crisis management, will now go bankrupt, someone will be appointed guilty, and perhaps even something will be done to him, although it is doubtful. The main thing is that Spetsremont will be deservedly bankrupt, because back in 2017, Defense Minister Shoigu complained that enterprises in 2012-2013 did not supply the Ministry of Defense with a huge amount of equipment in accordance with the contracts.
Indeed, how can Spetsremont find opportunities for repairs if the institution was busy with the bankruptcy of enterprises that they received from the Ministry of Defense? And it seems that then someone came up with a bright idea to transfer JSC "Spetsremont" to the State Corporation "Rostec".
Apparently, Rostec did not particularly need these plants either, because nothing had changed at all, and the wheels of the ruin and bankruptcy machine were spinning even faster.
I asked the employee of the press service of Rostec, I was transferred to the press service of the company RT-Capital, which promised to answer about “what is the reason for the liquidation and sale of repair plants and how this is combined with statements about the transition of the Russian economy on military lines.
In general, of course, the introduction of Spetsremont into Rostec today seems more than a strange thing. The factories belonged to the Ministry of Defense, they repaired military equipment, why was it necessary to transfer everything to a civilian corporation, which is generally not entirely clear what it does?
Why does RT-Capital own military factories? RT stands for Rostec. And, if you look at what this corporation should do in general, and this is best seen from the name, you can see this:
STATE CORPORATION FOR PROMOTION OF DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCTION AND EXPORT OF HIGH-TECH INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS "ROSTEH".
Sounds like a lot, but tractor or tanker repair factories are somehow not quite suitable, are they?
But if you look at the registries, then you can find a lot of interesting things there with the beginning on RT. In addition to the same RT-Capital, you can see RT-Intellectexport, RT-Business Development (authorized capital of 38 billion rubles, if anything), RT-Registrar (owns a bunch of enterprises), RT-Finance, RT-Guard, RT-Stroytekh and so on, more than two dozen subsidiaries doing something.
Including - sale for nothing of the equipment of factories and dismissal of personnel.
Most factories are waiting for the sale of equipment, cutting of all metal and reprofiling into warehouses, shopping centers, office space. Even a complete demolition and construction of a residential complex in their place is possible (they say this will happen on the site of the 172nd CARZ in Voronezh, they managed to build a plant in a very promising place). And this is now, in conditions of an extremely urgent need for military equipment against the backdrop of hostilities.
But what does the Rostekhovsky business care about the fact that we have a war? No, we have capitalism, and therefore money for a barrel, even if the subordinates of the Hero of Russia and the full holder of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, Mr. Chemezov, seem to be acting on legal grounds, destroying military factories.
And by the way, the list of plants under threat is not limited to these twelve.
PJSC "Motovilikhinskiye Zavody"
This holding unites plants, including those with a full cycle of creating MLRS. In addition to Gradov, Smerch and Tornado, they produce Mstu-B, Vena, Nona of all modifications - in general, the historical artillery granary of Russia.
In 2002, the plants changed owners, passing under the control of CJSC Financial House Rus, and in 2011 a large block of shares was acquired by JSC NPK Uralvagonzavod, through which the company passed into the state corporation ... Rostec!
On August 20, 2009, Motovilikhinskiye Zavody PJSC was included in the list of strategic organizations by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation. Do you think it helped the factories a lot?
In 2013, a criminal case was opened against the former shareholder Marat Zagidullov on the fact of fraud that caused damage to Motovilikha Plants in the amount of 1,2 billion rubles. Zagidullov, together with a group of persons from among the managers of the enterprise, issued loans to legal entities “under contracts”.
As expected, no one repaid the loans, and the founder Zagidullin inflicted damage on Motovilikhinskiye Zavody JSC in the amount of 1,268 billion rubles. General Director Bukhvalov tried to bring Zagidullin to justice, and even a criminal case was opened on the fact of the robbery of a strategic enterprise.
However, in November 2014, the criminal case was dismissed "due to the lack of corpus delicti in the actions of the defendants." Well, Zagidullin and the company did nothing illegal. They did not steal more than a billion from the cash register, they simply lent money to dishonest people.
Is it worth saying that Mr. Zagidullin was a deputy of the State Duma of Russia from the United Russia party? So I don't think it's worth it.
And at the beginning of August 2017, PJSC Motovilikhinskiye Zavody entered the bankruptcy procedure - the court of the Perm Territory introduced a monitoring procedure for the plant.
In 2018, the company was declared bankrupt, the bankruptcy process was controlled by the same RT-Capital. Somehow it happened that "Plants" owed "RT-Capital" 7,6 billion rubles. And the Rostekhov structure bankrupted the plant with an unwavering hand.
And in 2022, the SVO began. So what?
And nothing. In March of this year, sales of the plants' property started. At first they sold in parts, but then it was decided to sell everything in one lot. War, not war - Rostec and Promsvyazbank (wanted about 1 billion rubles from Motovilikha) have their own interests.
At the request of RT-Capital, the company was forced to put up for sale property worth 3,5 billion rubles. It included production workshops, an engineering building, administrative and utility rooms, and various equipment. Promsvyazbank requires another 1 billion rubles.
Truly, to whom the war is - to whom the mother is dear ...
Local authorities in Perm are very eager to keep the plant, realizing its value. But for Rostec and PSB, the main value is somewhat different.
There is unofficial information from the scene that the part that is responsible for the MLRS feels quite normal and is provided with work. But if you take it as a whole, the situation cannot be called calm.
For all the enterprises mentioned above, the cause of bankruptcy and problems is the same: the absence of a state defense order (SDO) and the resulting lack of money. As a result, outdated plants often cannot be upgraded or repurposed.
Sometimes, production facilities that have not been operating for years are in such a state that there really is nothing to save there.
But the list contains quite efficient until recently factories that could provide significant assistance to the army.
Today, the situation is such that all legitimate activities to bankrupt military repair plants are illegal and harmful. The country is waging a real war with all the ensuing consequences, the fact that the war is called a "special military operation" does not mean at all that the equipment does not need to be repaired in quantities that are incomparable with the quantities in peacetime.
Factories are needed. Workers and engineers are needed. And they are needed today, and not in the fields, but in the comfortable conditions of factories.
And we have a situation where instead of factories there will soon be residential areas or shopping centers. And what the Rostekhov officials will say in such a situation is already clear to me. They will say that everything was done according to the law.
According to the law of peacetime. Now the time is completely different.
It is customary for us, after reading such articles, to ask the question: “And what does the author propose?”.
The author proposes that the relevant structures of the Ministry of Defense intervene immediately. Stop bankruptcy procedures and bankruptcy administration. Return factories to the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defense. To return colonel directors, engineers and workers to the factories. Start repairing equipment as soon as possible.
Moreover, I know that people who were thrown out of factories as part of bankruptcy, in the main, the majority will return back at the first call. Ready to sign for many, especially in Voronezh. Those same fanatics of their enterprises, they will come and repair the equipment for as long as necessary.
Equipment is waiting for repairs, factories are waiting for decisions.
The necessary opinion from Rostec, received as a result of our appeal to the press service of the RT-Capital company with a request to comment on the situation with 12 bankrupt factories:
Armored repair plants No. 61, 81, 560 are today part of the Uralvagonzavod concern, performing their tasks of scheduled equipment repair and modernization.
In addition, teams of specialists from various Rostec holdings are currently working at field points for maintenance and repair of equipment damaged during a special military operation.
It should be noted that in 2017-2018, when the process of transferring Spetsremont from the Russian Ministry of Defense to the Rostec State Corporation took place, 90% of the holding’s repair plants had signs of insolvency or were already in bankruptcy proceedings. Unsettled accounts payable under the State Defense Order amounted to 30 billion rubles, and the company's loss was more than 32 billion rubles. Operations on the settlement accounts of the company were actually blocked due to the execution orders presented to them - their amount exceeded 600 million rubles. Technically and morally, the repair plants that are part of the holding did not meet the requirements that the modern market imposes on them. Therefore, many of the competencies and their shares in this market were transferred to other representatives of the industry, who became the only executors of government contracts instead of Spetsremont.
At the same time, as part of the restructuring of repair plants, RT-Capital LLC (a specialized subsidiary of Rostec for working with problem assets) was able to restore the efficiency and solvency of a significant part of Spetsremont's subsidiaries, preventing a transition to bankruptcy proceedings. This was achieved through the restructuring of debts, increasing the portfolio of orders, work with non-core assets.
As for those assets of Spetsremont, which are now in the process of bankruptcy (there are 12 such enterprises), the sale of their property is carried out in accordance with the provisions of the Bankruptcy Law - under the control of creditors, the arbitration court and relevant ministries.
The assets of these organizations, which are included in the list of strategic or defense companies, are sold in accordance with the rules for the sale of property sets of strategic enterprises. Only those companies that have valid licenses issued by the authorized body for the implementation of the state defense order are allowed to participate in the auction. The buyer will be obliged to preserve the designated purpose of the property complex and mobilization property of the debtor, as well as to fulfill the debtor's contracts under the state defense order, to ensure federal state needs in the field of maintaining the defense capability and security of the Russian Federation.
They control the preservation of the intended purpose and the execution of contracts by the Ministry of Defense of Russia or the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia - depending on the direction of activity of a particular enterprise.
Rostec’s answer can be spelled out for a very long time, but the essence here is simple: everything written by the company’s press service was valid until 24.02.2022/XNUMX/XNUMX, especially since Rostec employees are cunning in some things. But we will return to this in the following materials.
Today we are in a completely different situation. And you need to act on the basis of several other laws. This is my personal opinion, as is the opinion of many former employees of bankrupt military repair plants.
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