How much money is stolen in Russia, or corruption Eden
The day does not pass without a new message from news agencies about the new fact of embezzlement of budget funds, the manifestation of a fraudulent scheme, a corruption scandal involving large business and high-ranking Russian officials. Sometimes it seems that we are literally on the verge of a grand event, when the blow to corruption will be such that even progressive in this direction Singapore would envy our brother. It seems to press a little more, a little more pressure and - everything: gather, law enforcement agencies, ready, and pass, the courts, your sentences, adequate situations.
It seems ... So far it only seems. They crossed themselves, and still the sensation does not leave ... And how can they leave, when here and there again they broadcast about an inflated estimate, about the unlawful realization of state property at prices with a fair discount, about crumbling highways and dancing bridges, about plundering military means, Olympic, educational, medical and other budgets ... And literally every day we see the face of the head of state, which says "lost fear altogether!" And he paints his face, and the presidential fists seem to be clenched, and his teeth creak, and look like that - Vladimir Putin is smiling at all these "tum" - "bilal" - "basil" - "serdyukovyh" and will demonstrate something of a sort of judo, but ... Someone is in a position, someone enters the position, someone is deceived by an accountant , and someone has a general reference ...
So far, everything is just in standby: we know, they say, but we still need to clarify the losses, bring together the testimony of the witnesses, and only then take action.
A kind of anti-corruption wave in standby mode: you want to continue - press any key. It would seem so much easier. But only from the standby mode, the system still can not get out, because, as it were, it states that it cannot yet find the buttons with such a name on the state development keyboard ... Where, they say, is this “any key”? Looking for ...
And then there are some kind of "helpers". Take the sensational situation with JSC RusHydro. For strange reasons, the company itself (its management) never heard anything about that certain contractors and subcontractors “heated” the RusHydro workers for a billion rubles in the construction of the Zagorsk PSPP-2. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation on its official website informs that, even in 2009, within the limits of its competence, it began to check the expenditure of funds from investment resources and the company's repair funds. The tax authorities, in turn, report that in 2007 they revealed a strange overstatement of several million rubles estimates by contracting companies.
After identifying that JSC RusHydro simply steals someone at different scales, the representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs turned to the management of the company to act as the injured party. It would be able to give progress. However, according to the same Ministry of Internal Affairs, which ordinary citizens learned from the broadcast of the meeting on the fuel and energy complex held under the President of the Russian Federation, the leadership of RusHydro did not consider itself a robbed party. It's amazing! .. The company suffered significant losses, but at the same time its leadership for quite some time actually said: millions? billions? Is it worth worrying about such trifles? We will work this billion on consumers at once ...
Why, they say, the tax inspectorate and the Interior Ministry carried all this to such a level of discussion - only the president was disturbed. Now, you see, recognize yourself as the injured party, upholste the thresholds of the ships - a complete confusion. The thing is penny: think about it, a billion more, a billion less ...
The chairman of the board, Yevgeny Dod, who listened to the reproaches of President Putin, as if he were trying to convey to the head of state: you just do not worry, everything has already been stolen - what are these nerves? but if you still insist, then we certainly recognize ourselves as the injured party, only to whom will this be easier? ..
After the “interview” with Vladimir Putin, the same Mr. Dod finally decided to inspect Zagorskaya PSPP-2 himself and said that by Wednesday the company would make the same verdict: was it robbed, or were all these millions-billions stolen - only too much speculation law enforcement officers. In other words, the chairman of the board of RusHydro reacted more than calmly to the dressing arranged by the president: they said, Vladimir Vladimirovich waited for 5 for years, wait until Wednesday ...
Once they called it the brakes or even sabotage, and now they are effective, you know, management. We will calculate everything again, estimate it, settle it, divide it, reissue it - and only then we will announce who the victim was in this situation, and in general, whether there was any fraud or other corruption.
No less noisy stood out story with a man like Ahmed Bilalov, whose name was mentioned in connection with the introduction of some Olympic venues almost by 2,5 year and the increase in the cost of construction of facilities in 6,7 times. Ahmed Bilalov himself in 2009 year was elected to the post of vice-president of the Olympic Committee of the Russian Federation (neither more nor less). In addition, he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of KSK Company (Resorts of the North Caucasus).
And this Ahmed Gadzhievich Bilalov (in addition also a member of the Central Control and Revision Commission of United Russia) together with his brother Magomed Gadzhievich Bilalov (by strange coincidence, the shareholder of OJSC Krasnaya Polyana), as well as his cousin Ziyavudin Gadzhievich Magomedov (major shareholder Novorossiysk Commercial Port, the owner of 111-th position in the Russian list of Forbes with a fortune of almost 1 billion dollars) worked for the benefit of the North Caucasus, not working around the hands. How much they “didn’t work” their hands can be judged by the fact that as a result of only one transaction for the sale of shares of “their” company, one of the Bilalovs received more than 5 billion rubles. Moreover, the cost of building Olympic facilities, for which Ahmed Gadzhievich undertook, increased by leaps and bounds.
The situation here resembles something like the following: for wallpapering the walls of the bedroom in your apartment, you hire a brigade of workers and agree with them about the cost of the work. Representatives of the brigade declare that they will do the work for N rubles. You agree. During the works, you are told that you need to raise the bar of payment, because at first the team did not take into account that the bedroom has a window and a battery under this window, which is also cold - your fingers are cold ... you reluctantly agree. But that's not all! After pasting, you are told that you do not need to pay 2N or even 3N, but all 6N, as the glue brigade bought the glue not at the nearest store of construction and finishing materials, but ordered from abroad to smuggle in nuclear submarines (one a glue pack - for one nuclear-powered submarine missile cruiser) delivered to Russia exclusively by the Northern Sea Route ... As a result, you would have refused to pay, but all that money you hired was taken from the pocket of your coat hanging in the hallway. You took it as a job for them ... And then you only realized it when the workers were already waving a pen, and after the wallpaper strip outside the window had already come unstuck.
This is about the situation in which the Russians felt themselves after the publication of the story about the activities of Mr. Bilalov and his closest associates in the construction of Sochi’s (and others too) facilities. It turns out that the Bilalov brothers worked in such a way that neither the United Russia Control and Audit Commission, nor the president of the Russian Olympic Committee, Alexander Zhukov, or anyone else, had any suspicions. The Bilalov brothers asked for billions, and these billions were given to them ... They gave it in silence, and now it is! ..
Ahmed Gadzhievich Bilalov, who, by the way, does not agree with the criticism directed at him, even decided to write a statement of his own accord. Active defenders of Mr. Bilalov say: they say, this is a real Caucasian man! He even wrote “on his own” in order not to expose President Putin, because, according to the rules of the IOC, the authorities do not have the right to interfere in the affairs of the national Olympic committees.
But I didn’t write right away ... I also thought: maybe it’s going to go bad ...
By the way, apparently, this is the IOC rule and made it possible for the brothers to work quite calmly throughout the North Caucasus and gradually rise in the Forbes rating. You can understand this joy, which is captured in the photo from the collection of Ahmed Bilalov himself ...
Well, and then what? .. They didn’t even dismiss them, but the man quit on his own. No criminal cases, no large-scale proceedings. If you stole several billions of budget money, then why is the Interior Ministry silent in this case? .. And if you didn’t steal it, if the law enforcement system is silent, so it turns out that others have stolen ... But then who? Are there really even bigger sausas behind the very well-to-do Dagestan brothers who actively mastered the Russian budget? .. If so, then it turns out that Bilalov and Co. himself is only the tip of the iceberg, which we were shown, and the actual loss by the budget 5-6 billion rubles is a small fraction of real budget losses ... But if this is a small fraction, then what is the true scope? Apparently, we will not know for sure in the near future. However, it is worthwhile to estimate, proceeding only from the available messages of information agencies, data of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, tax specialists, the Main Military Prosecutor's Office, the Investigation Committee ...
So, let's start the process of summation.
JSC RusHydro - 1 billion rubles.
The announced overstatement of expenses on the construction of Olympic facilities (only on the site of Ahmed Bilalov) is almost 6,2 billion rubles.
Plunders in the construction of facilities for the APEC summit in Vladivostok - 96 million rubles (not counting the restoration of the collapsed road and payments to property owners for the damage).
Corruption scandal in VAK - 1,5 billion rubles.
Plunders at Rosagroleasing - 39 billion rubles.
Theft at Oboronservis is more than 10 billion rubles.
Corruption activities in the Oncology Research Institute - 29 million rubles.
Plunders in the housing and utilities sector of the Murmansk region - 1,5 billion rubles.
Plunders in the sphere of housing and communal services in St. Petersburg - 3 billion rubles.
You can continue more and more, but already here comes the amount of almost 63,5 billion rubles. And if we take into account that the average iceberg under the water still has a percentage of 85-90 volume, then such a size of theft, kickbacks and other manifestations of corruption emerges that a very bad idea comes to mind. Oh, since the corruption in the country is blooming and smelling like that, but as they say, there are no proper landings, so maybe the Russians themselves will be forced to have them, and for the guilty to be punished ... We are being pushed to this, they say in order to fight corruption, it is necessary to grip the handle of certain gentlemen in the legislative, executive and judicial powers ... Give a pullback, so that they begin to fight kickbacks ... Can it really be any different? Is the whole country entangled in the boils of corrupt Eden? ..
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