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Olympics. Deripaska. Versions
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Olympics. Deripaska. Versions
February 17, 2014 Vladimir Volkov
In an interview with CNBC, Oleg Deripaska expressed doubt about the figure of expenses for the Olympics. According to his estimates, not fifty billion dollars were spent on Sochi games, as previously reported, but less than thirty.
How, one wonders, understand? A billionaire and noble Sochi developer Oleg Deripaska, sitting in the middle of the Olympic Park, tells the American television channel like that?
Which one?
It turns out that he, Deripaska, does not really trust the official estimates of the costs of organizing games - one and a half trillion rubles or about $ 50 billion. Estimates, which, I note in brackets, were declared not only by the opposition of Navalny, but also by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Medvedev , which automatically equates them to the official one.
So Oleg Deripaska does not agree, which CNBC said last week. He knows the correct figure. It is much lower-$ 27-29 billion. As for the notorious fifty billions, the businessman simply does not understand where they came from: the government did not come from the government, therefore, the oligarch assumes, the journalists came up with.
After such words, it is worth thinking: either Deripaska does not read the newspapers, or Medvedev abandoned the Cabinet for a journalistic career ... If we assume that the businessman said exactly what he wanted to say, his statement, if he thought, was simply scandalous.
We will talk once again: one of the largest investors of the Sochi construction believes - and states this in an interview with one of the leading world television channels - that the real cost of games in Sochi is less officially declared as much as two tens of billions of green. In other words, not much less than half of the Sochi budget, let's say streamlined in an unknown direction.
If so, it is not a sin and to speculate how this Deripaska managed to such statements.
The first version - it is so brave - looks objectively weak. What, in what, was not yet seen in the front of Deripaska. The sluggish ultimatum, nominated by Bazel, among other developers of the Olympic Sochi, demanding tax benefits for unprofitable Olympic projects and restructuring loans to VEB, is not openly pulled for front -line. Rather, for cute showdowns between their own. And this question is already amicably settled - the payment of interest on Sochi loans to investors was delayed before the end of next year. There, you see, they will write off at all. Then, probably, the very beautiful day will come (which Deripaska was spoke of CNBC) when the Olympic projects begin to make him profit.
Here is a small lyrical digression on a given topic. Actually, Deripaska is sitting tightly on the long-term hook of the state, which in the last crisis helped him pay off foreign creditors, and now at any time it can simply take his business from him. Moreover, I emphasize this - on quite legal grounds.
Right now, Bazel is negotiating the restructuring or refinancing of loans worth about $ 9 billion, which cannot be serviced under the current situation in world markets. If they do not agree, then the State Bank will move away most of the assets laid down for them. For example, the Norilsk Nickel blockpack belonging to Rusalu, which is provided with a loan before Sberbank for $ 4.5 billion.
You want, you don’t want to, but you will become silent in a rag and behave socially responsibly - not to close the unprofitable plants without a go -ahead from above, to relocate workers for your money, to return a fountain pen at the first request ... In a word, to be an oligarch with a human face, even if very sad.
In many ways, for the same reasons, it can hardly withstand criticism and version number two - it is so smart. Yes, of course, a deripaska is a grated person, a broken year is cooked in an Olympic boiler, he knows how much how much can sculculate. But to voice the truth, in fact, declaring the exact amount - here I will again resort to euphemisms - an oversight allowed by the organizers? A smart person will not do this.
Therefore, here we move to version three - it was so licked. This version, if honestly, personally seems to me the most plausible. Simply put, consciously or not underestimating the assessment of expenses for the Olympics, Deripaska sought to underestimate the true scale of theft at the Sochi construction site. Moreover, in my opinion, it is significant that he turned to the Western audience of CNBC. In fact, it may turn out that the effect will be exactly the opposite: after what has been said, these scales appear even more convex.
All these are only versions that can be confirmed or refuted by the upcoming audit of Sochi by the Accounts Chamber. And here I would arrange a personal competition between Golikova and Deripaska.
According to the Olympic system, of course. To be a renewal.