Kozak: "There is no corruption in Olympstroy

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, who oversees the Government preparations for the Sochi Olympics, did not receive information about abuse and corruption at the Olympstroy State Corporation. According to RIA Novosti, the information about the theft of more than 23 million rubles intended for the Olympic construction site, the Kozak called the “anecdotal” information. “Nothing was gone,” Kozak said, adding that the Olympstroy security service revealed a number of violations, informing the relevant structures. “This has nothing to do with corruption,” Kozak said.

"No facts of abuse, theft, corruption are neither in the corporation or other authorities to date, despite the close control, which is exercised by a variety of organs," Kozak said. "There are no threats and risks that there are continuous abuses, rollbacks and corruption, so far, thank God, today this information has not received this information from a single report of law enforcement and control and supervisory authorities," he added.

The day before, the Investigative Committee for the Krasnodar Territory said that in 2010 27 criminal cases were instituted on the facts of corruption in the Sochi administration. The accused in 2007-2010, using false documents, stole more than 23 million rubles intended for the Olympic construction. True, they specified in the UK that these facts were opened, including through the Olympstroy security service.

On January 31, the head of Olympstroy Taimuraz Bolloev filed an application for resignation from the company's post for health reasons. On the same day, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accepted Bolloev’s resignation and appointed the new head of Olympstroy with his disposal. It was the deputy head of the government apparatus Sergey Gaplikov. In the White House, where Gaplikov was transferred in April 2010 from the post of Prime Minister of Chuvashia, it was he who controlled the Department of Industry and Infrastructure, responsible for preparing for the 2014 Winter Olympics. In the apparatus of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, who oversees Sochi-2014, they refused to comment on the situation.

According to Kommersant, the construction of Olympic stadiums in Sochi and adjacent infrastructure will cost 185 billion rubles, of which the budget allocates about 80 billion, the rest is private investors. Almost all budget funds "Olympstroy" as a manager of this money received in 2009. The report of the state corporation for this period states that the balance of funds in its accounts amounted to 69.5 billion rubles. According to Oleg Kharchenko, chief architect of Olympstroy, the state corporation coordinates the construction of more than 230 Olympic facilities, directly finances about 20. "These projects are implemented on schedule," he says.

Bolloev headed Olympstroy in June 2009. His predecessors - Semyon Weinstok and Viktor Kolodyazhny - in 2.5 years did no more than 1 percent of the declared volume, says a source in the state corporation. At the beginning of 2011, the volume of work performed in Sochi reached 40 percent. So, for example, the sports routes built in Sochi will be tested in mid -February during the Cups of Russia and Europe in skiing. According to the schedule agreed with the International Olympic Committee, this year another 29 percent of the intended volume should be built, in 2012 - 19 percent, in the first half of 2013 - about 10 percent.

Bolloev wanted to leave the state corporation of his own free will back in mid -2010, sources in Olympstroy say. This is confirmed by one of the officials in the government. According to one of the interlocutors of Kommersant, this is due to the fact that Taimuraz Bolloev received information about poorly completed engineering and survey work. “Although these works were carried out before Bolloev’s appointment to the presidency of the state corporation, the responsibility could have been personally on him,” he explained. Back in February 2010, Olympstroy left the vice president of economics and finance Alexander Nikonov, who was invited to this position Bolloev.