"Profitable place" Minister Anatoly Serdyukov
As it turned out, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov could allow his department to purchase expensive foreign cars, each of which would cost the budget 6 million rubles a year. And despite the fact that hundreds of officers cannot wait for the promised apartments for years, and there are not enough money in military units to provide decent living conditions for soldiers. About how Anatoly Serdyukov made from the Ministry of Defense "profitable place", the correspondent of The Moscow Post informs.It seems that our army is the richest army in the world. You do not believe it? But only our Minister of Defense, despite the entire situation with financing of the armed forces, is able to purchase three armored vehicles for the transportation of management, five luxury cars of class E and 13 - class F, four BMW 525 IA for public money. Drivers and maintenance are needed for 264 ambulances, 73 Ford Focus, 81 GAZ, Toyota Land Cruiser.
In general, 566 bn. Rub. Will be spent on providing the 10,3 vehicle for defense with drivers and maintenance from the state treasury.
By the way, these figures include the cost of repair and maintenance of all vehicles, costs for fuel and insurance. Including driving services, the annual maintenance of one such vehicle per year will be 6 million rubles.
Not weak? The armies of other countries, it would seem, could envy the Russian in terms of public investment in the defense industry. But no…
After all, apparently, the money goes into the pocket to the "officials in uniform".
It was their fault for the 2009 year with government procurement in the field of defense orders, the state was damaged in 1 billion rubles. It was this figure that was voiced at the Prosecutor General’s Office by the Chief Military Prosecutor Sergey Fridinsky. So the military is not at the address spend about half of the funds allocated for the procurement of weapons. Although this half includes not only untargeted expenses, but also those expenses that can be avoided. Taking into account the fact that last year about 200 billion rubles were allocated for these purposes, the overrun can be enormous. In the end, the authorities made certain organizational findings and reduced the number of government contracts in 2010 from 12 000 to 5000.
But what is the cause of corruption in the implementation of military government orders?
The thing is that in this case, the FAS has no authority on the Ministry of Defense. In fact, Anatoly Serdyukov can’t even be complained to anti-monopolists. After all, all complaints related to the state defense order system should be accepted and considered by the Rosoboronzakaz, which was created in 2004 and subordinated to the Ministry of Defense.
Thus, according to the already established tradition, the military are checking themselves.
And to all the claims of the FAS, the Ministry of Defense responds that, they say, they have a Rosoboronzakaz, and "please do not worry about anti-monopoly lawyers."
This is how our “valiant” Anatoly Serdyukov, not controlled by FAS, acts.
That is why the armored vehicles of the Italian manufacturer Iveco LMV M65 have already entered service, and the domestic Tigers have remained out of work. As a result, the domestic auto giant GAZ lost a large order, and workers lost additional premiums.
By the way, they say that when Iveco was chosen, the Russian “officials in uniform” received a good “rollback”.
Given the recent scandal, when employees of the German automaker Daimler successfully bribed representatives of the Ministry of Defense, it is not surprising that the Italians could use this same technique.
However, the fact that the Ministry of Defense does not submit to FAS has already entailed a series of scandals not only in the car market. We are talking in particular about the communications market. As you know, now the military control frequencies in the range of 790-862 MHz and 2,5-2,7 GHz. In fact, it is the control of the Ministry of Defense that prevents the development of 3G and 4G in Russia.
It would seem that civilian commercial companies should be responsible for the development of broadband Internet? But no…
After all, there is Voentelecom, which decided to compete with MTS, MegaFon, VimpelCom and Rostelecom for controlling 4G communication networks using the 2,3-2,4 GHz frequency band.
It is this range that Osnova Telecom wants to get, in which the Ministry of Voentelecom has an 25,1% stake. Thus, the subordinates of Anatoly Serdyov are lobbying in the State Commission for Radio Frequencies (SCRF) the interests of Basics of Telecom.
Such interference in the business process is clearly “exceeding official authority”, so Minister Serdyukov can easily be held criminally liable under article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Moreover, the very fact of the participation of the Minister of Defense in economic operations related to the conduct of business is in violation of the law on state service.
Recently, the Ministry of Defense has generally shown itself as an “greedy sprut”, raking everything around. Due to the conflict between the Ministry of Defense and the Federal Space Agency Roskosmos, the military seized the property of many space objects. As a result, the GLANASS program was thwarted by the attacks of the military ministry on Roskosmos.
It seems that Anatoly Serdyukov purposefully ruining the army, turning it into an ordinary business structure. So is such a person worthy of being the minister of defense? ..
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