Stepashin denied the data of the Navalny dossier

The message of the public activist and the minority shareholder of Transneft Alexei Navalny about the theft of $ 4 billion during the construction of the Eastern Siberia - the Pacific Ocean "is not true. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by the head of the Accounts Chamber Sergei Stepashin. The official confirmed that the Accounts Chamber really checked Transneft in 2008.

“There are no 4 billion thefts,” Stepashin said, answering the question of whether he could confirm or refute the facts about the results of the transneft verification. The authenticity of documents published on the Navalny blog did not comment. Earlier in the Accounts Chamber, they promised to monitor them with the archive of the department.

Navalny on November 16 published on the blog part of the materials for the verification of Transneft, conducted by the Accounts Chamber in 2008. According to the report, at the request of the auditors, Transneft’s employees themselves prepared official reports certified by the company's officials. They stated Navalny, contains "clear and unambiguous conclusions" about numerous crimes committed by "unidentified" employees of various "daughters" "Transneft" and its contractors. The source from which these documents were received did not report. The blogger rated $ 4 billion. Navalny said the newspaper Vedomosti that the calculations were made on the basis of published documents, expert assessments and media publications.

The Accounts Chamber reported on the results of the verification at Transneft in February 2009, although the full materials were not published by the department. The report of the Accounts Chamber said that during the implementation of the project, 83 contracts for a total of 78.5 billion rubles were concluded without competitions. "This indicates that the regulatory documents of AK" Transneft "contain an expansion interpretation of cases of attracting contracting organizations without holding competitions," the auditors said.

Transneft confirmed the fact of an audit of the company to the Accounts Chamber, but refused other comments. The VSO construction financing for the construction was initiated by the new management of the company (in October 2007, Nikolai Tokarev replaced Semen Weinstock as President Transneft), since "the time for construction of the VSO was radically not respected."

Russia launched VSO to develop the wealthy deposits of Eastern Siberia. The first stage of the system, according to Reuters, cost Transneft $ 12 billion. Another 10 billion will be required for the second stage of the oil pipeline. Transneft transports 93 percent of oil produced in Russia.