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Is it easy to steal a trillion? It turns out yes. And the trillion per year? Yes without problems.

The Zimbabvian boy goes to the store. In the hands - trillion (denominated) Zimbabvian dollars

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Maxim Kvasha

Maxim Kvasha is a legendary journalist who shocked the world of an interview about 600 thousand Russian security forces, "who do not do it and are looking for where to make money." Now - an economic consultant.

During public procurement, this perfectly succeeds in Russian officials and businessmen close to them. President Dmitry Medvedev last Friday did not dispute this conclusion of his subordinates, even agreed that Trillion was a “conservative” assessment. In other words, it is officially recognized that at least (!) Trillion rubles, that is, at least a fifth of all the expenditures of the budget for public procurement, settles in the pockets of unscrupulous officials and contractors.

It is difficult for a normal person to imagine that kind of money. Therefore, we will try to compare them with something else. For example, in 2010, the expenses of the federal budget for education, culture, sports, healthcare and the media in total will amount to a little less than a trillion. And the total budget expenditures for public administration will amount to 0.44 trillion rubles. Well, or in a different way: approximately trillion rubles in the coming years will be a deficit of the budget of the Pension Fund. In order to at least partially close this hole, you have to increase taxes, and in the future, the retirement age.

Of course, I really want to complain about the word “conservatively” and discuss how realistic the rolling rate of 20%is. That is how much it happened to the head of the control department of Konstantin Chuychenko. Someone believes that it is actually lower, and someone gives an example of a story where it reached 50–70%. I had to face such. And even with those where the specific performers reached, God forbid, 10 percent of the amount of state order. However, I did not want to argue with Chuychenko here in position and access to information, he should be the most informed person in the country in this matter.

You can also remember that in addition to budget expenditures, we also have purchases of state -owned companies - there, if we rummage, you can also find a lot of strange things. It is unlikely that a trillion, but dozens, or even hundreds of billions of rubles a year - either tritely stolen, or completely wasted - will be found, I promise.

And of course, I want to catch on the word "annually." It turns out that over the past 10 years, it has been stolen from the treasury-well, let it not be ten (you have to remember that the budget was once less), and “just about 5 trillion rubles”. Yeah, about $ 200 billion. About the same amount as almost the same years, I managed to save in an almost waste stab fund. And much more than all this time has been spent on road construction.

Most likely, these grades and comparisons flashed not only in my head, but also among the participants in the presidential meeting. Fortunately, knowledge of higher mathematics is not required. And it’s not that they were supernight: the newspapers today recall that the former Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov once spoke about the rate of a rollback of 10%-lower, but also a lot. And I well remember how, on the sidelines of the State Duma, during the discussion of the next amendments to the legislation on public procurement, much more pessimistic estimates were given. In a whisper, however. And in no case is not for recording.

Correctly built road is an expensive pleasure

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But in general, it is no secret to anyone for many years that public procurement is a bonanza for officials, super -profits for selected businesses and a black hole for the budget. And for many years they have been trying to darn this black hole - more and more amendments to the legislation are adopted, words about increasing transparency, improvement of procedures, tightening responsibility, and so forth and so forth and the like are being pronounced. That is, for the Russian leadership, all these nightmare numbers are no secret.

But for many years it is not possible to win this type of corruption. Why? There are, in fact, two answer options. The first is that the Russian government is weak. What to her - despite all the tinsel, the vertical of power and the sovereign rattling of regalia - cannot be kept under subordination of the performers. The second is that the stability of the power vertical is ensured by corruption at all levels: take it away, and the system will fall apart as cards of the house. In other words, the country's leadership is allegedly not interested in removing theft from the system.

The third version of the answer is that it itself extracts giant dividends from the existing system- we will exclude from consideration. If only because there is no evidence for this. Well, or because Medvedev decided on a public discussion of trillion theft - he would be involved in person, would probably be silent, probably.

And it was unlikely to recall-it seemed to me that with some sadness-about the death penalty for corruption "in some countries." After all, there is not the slightest confidence that the next amendments to the public procurement procedures will at least reduce the scale of theft, not to mention eradication. Some despair directly in his words thought. Or did you think?

Why, if not out of despair, the authorities make decisions that be a boomerang on it?

Remember the story with the removal of Luzhkov: having accused him of corruption, inefficiency, inability to solve city problems, the federal authorities actually signed that for decades they had put up with all these outrages. Yes, what they “put up” there were covered. Thus taking a fair part of responsibility.

So in the history of public procurement: publicly recognizing the trillion scale of budget crimes, Medvedev either consciously, or not, but actually signed under the sentence of a system that could not cope with them for years.

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