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Enemies of the state
Pskov officials are shocked by the fact that someone dares to punish them
The Pskov Antimonopoly Service seems to be exclusively engaged in business. After all, the term “monopoly” itself arose in it. However, at a meeting with Pskov journalists, the head of the regional OFAS Olga Milonets Devices Devices for three minutes, and the rest of the hour talks about local officials, releasing, in general, sensational statements.
Persistent enemies
In general, the words of Olga Milonets that most violations of antimonopoly legislation are committed by officials have long become a common place. And if you look at the numbers, then questions appear than in principle to deal with the Antimonopoly Office if there were not “our dear officials” (about dear ones - a quote from the speech of Milonets). For example, in 2016 there were 143 violations of the Law “On Protection of Competition”, 125 of them were committed by various authorities in the Pskov region, 18 - business.
Let's again: if you take 18 business violations in 100%, then the authorities made almost 600% more mistakes. It becomes clear why in the summer the head of the FAS Igor Artemyev in the eyes of the State Duma deputies said that power is the main enemy of competition in Russia. This enemy, among other things, is also stubborn: for example, not a single decision of the OFAS to the administration of the Pskov region was fulfilled without trials. When the antimonopolists say to the servants of the people: “Gentlemen, you violate the rights of people,” “gentlemen” listen and then go to court. And while there is a trial, which ultimately always confirms the decision of the OFAS, those in power continue to violate the rights of citizens to the competitive market. A natural question arises: if officials do not protect the rights of people, then whose rights they protect?
So Olga Milonets has to not state for the first time: the regional OFAS does not quite simple relations with the authorities.
We don't really like you
At the same time, the Pskov OFAS has not been shy about raising questions that have a good judicial perspective. For example, in 2016, the antitrust workers again did not understand how the Eldorado store differs from the rest of the shopping centers. The regional authorities have again published a list of shopping centers that will work on a special taxation system, and the OFAS according to the fact that entrepreneurs must pay the established and completely legal “rent”, says Milonets. However, OFAS again does not understand why the authorities “did not notice” the Eldorado store.
The SEZ "could" got from the Pskov antimonopolists especially often. Photo: Timur Galimov / "PG"
At the same time, in 2016, the OFAS already through the court proved the regional administration that they were wrong. But in 2017, the list again came out in the same form, and, of course, again the authorities did not have enough definition of the OFAS, and they again went to court instead of correcting the “raw” document. Meanwhile, discriminatory, according to Milonets, the document continues to work.
The same, with your permission, the circus continues with the "station assembly" of the GP in Pskovavtotrans. For some reason, the company included money for using tickets for using the bus station. The OFAS has been proved in the courts for a year that the company organized by the administration of the Pskov region violates the rights of residents of the Pskov region. Two courts also announced this fee to violating the rights of citizens. But what is the case of the rights of citizens of the regional authorities? The collection has not been canceled, the courts continue, the Pskovs are forced to pay extra money to the state enterprise: the leadership of Pskovavtotrans, led by Alexander Gizbrecht , obviously like the authorities much more than all these Pskovs.
Of course, state -owned enterprises are beaten by ruble and the pocket of entrepreneurs. For example, the UFAS has questions to the Pskov GTS regarding the use of cable sewage channels. The state-owned enterprise received access to them in Soviet times and for some reason decided that it is its integral owner. All Internet providers are forced to pay the company for the use of cables. It seems to be appointed “from the ceiling” for their services for their services. In any case, the OFAS of their reasons are incomprehensible. The “networkers” tried to explain to the antimonopoly service that the thicker the cable, the greater the price, but here they noticed that the new fiber is much thinner than their past generation, but is more expensive. However, for some reason, this does not affect the tariffs of the GTS. Now the state-owned enterprise has been given time to think about their behavior and draw up a more obvious price list for services.
How to punish the deputy governor
The sensation of Olga Milonets was finished in the end. The sensation was primarily for the region’s administration: the OFAS did not hesitate to endure the warning of the deputy governor of the Pskov region. Alexander Kuznetsov not so long ago traveled on the “possessions” and noticed that in addition to Pskovpesazhivetotrans, private traders are trying to work on routes. Kuznetsov menacingly and vaguely noticed that we should deal with it. Olga Milonets emphasized at a meeting with journalists that such remarks personally were alarming, so the department warned Alexander Viktorovich that henceforth should be more preserved: we have a law on passenger transportation, according to which private business has the right to work on routes if he won them.
Head of the Pskov Olga Milonets. Photo: Timur Galimov / "PG"
Kuznetsov did not like the warning, the Milonets admitted. Of course, I didn’t like it: to imagine that at least some department in the Pskov region will allow itself to be like that is impossible. So the deputy governor is weaned to follow the words. But nothing will get used to it.
Opegen the dog
By the way, there will probably be more sensational details in 2017: the Olga Milonets department received the right to establish conspiracy in bankruptcy cases. There were many bankruptcy cases at the end of 2016; deputies, officials or heads of state enterprises were somehow connected in one way or another. For example, one of the companies of the Pskov parliamentarian Alexei Sevastyanov was bankrupt by the enterprise Ilya Obodov . In the recent past, he headed the security service of the 747-Pskov football club, the president of which is precisely Sevastyanov.
On the forums, under each news that the next deputy received a bankruptcy claim, Pskovichi compete in wit: they say that people's chosen ones cannot figure out their affairs, but will be performed by the fate of the whole region. And this is despite the fact that to call the bankrupt people who are poor or incapable of paying the bills would be offensive to them. Well, perhaps, the OFAS will tell us in the near future, where is the dog buried in numerous bankrupt affairs.
We are in anticipation.