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The case of the theft of billions of rubles during the construction of the Eastern Siberia - Pacific Ocean oil pipeline
Where the billions of Transneft disappeared
Amur Region: President Medvedev, Prime Minister Putin and Deputy Prime Minister Sechin left their autographs on the Pipe of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean-at the place of branch of the pipeline to China , the case of the theft of billions of rubles during the construction of the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean could become Russian Watergate: Some stole, others, including the first persons, turned a blind eye to this. The New Times carefully read the materials of the internal investigation of Transneft, transferred to the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation, asked the lawyer Alexei Navalny, who published this report on his blog, called the interested parties. And I understood - this case will fall under the cloth
From an interview with Alexei Navalny - The New Times: the head of the County Chamber of the Russian Federation Sergey Stepashin confirmed that the ward checked Transneft, but did not agree with your assessment of the stolen. “There are no four billion theft,” he said. Explain how you reached the figure of $ 4 billion? In the documents, we counted at least 28 episodes by which the cost of work was overstated. We calculated these numbers. Plus, the data was extrapolated, that is, the average percentage of theft with different contractors for various types of work - at the total cost of the entire pipeline, which, however, does not know for sure: according to official estimates - 500 billion rubles, according to unofficial ones - about 600 billion. Based on this, I deduced the figure of $ 4 billion and all the people with whom I negotiated - experts, for example, an analyst, such as an analyst Rusenergy (Mikhail) Krutikhin, journalists writing on this subject, they say that this figure, with all possible assumptions, is similar to the truth.
After all, I have been walking with these documents since July - I showed, for example, to Vedomosti, but everyone refused to print it because it could not confirm the authenticity that these were the materials of the transneft internal verification, prepared at the request of the Accounts Chamber. And now everyone confirmed: Stepashin, that the group of his inspectors checked Transneft and Transneft itself. It is also known that Putin also saw these pieces of paper.
From an interview with Rusenergy analyst Mikhail Krutikhin - the Radio Svoboda radio stations: “I can confirm that I saw these documents, so to speak,“ in an official setting ”. In addition, there was practically no person in the oil industry who would not know about most of these violations. / .../ On the table of Vladimir Putin, who was then the President of Russia, were two documents. The first document was a certificate prepared by Nikolai Tokarev, who replaced Vainstok in 2007 at the head of Transneft. After that, the auditor Mikhail Beskhmelnitsyn from the Accounts Chamber was instructed to check the facts revealed by Tokarev. Beskhmelnitsyn conducted his test and put its results on the table to the same Putin. ”
10 billion rubles with a tail-an estimate of the design and survey work that was under the jurisdiction of OJSC VNIIST was overstated for such an amount. * * All-Russian Research Institute for the Construction and Operation of pipelines, FEC facilities. You write on your blog: “They stole everything” - everything is not all, but you understand how this scheme worked - it hurt a lot of money? Navalny: in fact, this office, VNIIST, belonged, and maybe still belongs to Vainstoku (Semen),
* From 1999 to 2007-President of Transneft. Just now she does nothing. That's why…
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| Semyon Weinste. 2008 |
Vainstoku or Transneft? It belonged, as they say in oil circles, personally, Weinstoka - of course, through a certain chain of trusted people.
Comment by the representative of OJSC VNIST - The New Times:
“We are no longer engaged in the design of the Eastern Siberia - Tikhiy Ocean (VSU) oil pipeline, now all questions for Transneft. Everything belongs to her. ”
Navalny: there was a very simple scheme. The office starts up. This office receives 10 billion rubles in a row, hires a subcontractor, a subcontractor is paid 6 billion, they take the difference for themselves. By the way, this scheme was confirmed to me in the Department of Economic Security (Deb) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - they at one time conducted checks on this topic there. Transneft had an office called the Central Executive Committee of the VSO - the Center for Management of the Project of the Eastern Siberia - Tikhiy Ocean, which formally organized tenders.
From the act “On the execution of paragraph 5“ List of measures to collect and prepare documents and information for the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation ”: “ As of 01.07. 2008 of the Central Department Store LLC, 37 contracts for SMR (construction and installation work.-The New Times) for the VSU vehicles in the amount of 173,529.0 million rubles. In accordance with the terms of contracts by general contracting organizations, work was completed in the amount of 54,075.896 million rubles. LLC “TsUP VSU” paid to contract organizations 71,046.1 million rubles, including in the form of advances of 40,826.745 million rubles. / .../ From 37 contracts for the implementation of SMR for 13 - the involvement of subcontracting organizations is not provided ... "
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Transneft is almost a FSB unit, it is all full of guys in uniform. This is a huge bag of "Kesha" to which they dispose
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Navalny: When the checks began, they destroyed the tender documentation. And this, by the way, is indicated in the report of Transneft itself. Those with whom I managed to talk in Dabe told me that there was no recess, nothing can be done, because they simply destroyed everything - burned out, they were spoiled with water, they ate mice. These are hundreds of volumes of documentation, a huge number - everything is destroyed.
Commentary to the head of the media relations department of the IC of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Irina Dudukina - The New Times: “Who is Navalny? What is Transneft? We don’t know anything about it. ”
Navalny: So the scheme was elementary-the system of intermediaries, each of which left something in his pocket. Moreover, the report “Transneft” explicitly states that some of these intermediary offices were registered with stolen passports.
Of the materials provided at the request of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation of July 09, 2008 No. SZI-11-03-69/11-03: 
Reference: Nikolai Tokarev - President of Transneft since 2007, in 1999–2000. -Vice President Transneft, from 2000 to 2007-General Director of Zarubezhneft. Colleague of Vladimir Putin on the residency of Soviet intelligence in the GDR: they lived in Dresden in the same house and even in the same entrance, but on different floors. In 1996-1999 He was the deputy general director of the State Unitary Enterprise for Property Management abroad by the Presidential Affairs Management of the Russian Federation: in 1996-1997. V.V. Putin.
* “New Gazeta” No. 80 of October 18, 2007. The New Times, Maxim Martemyanov: in chapter 7 of the materials provided by Transneft, the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation, which is “Analysis of the financial results of subsidiaries and“ grandson ”companies of the company that performed work on the construction of VSU (Appendix No. 9)”, it is indicated that in 2006–2008 in 2006–2008 years, the activities of subsidiaries and so -called "dependent" companies cost Transneft in 3144, 523 million rubles of loss. Moreover, 72.4% of the amount of loss falls on the “daughters”, the rest is on these same “dependent” offices.
Table No. 1, p. 16, indicates 14 companies that performed contract work during the construction of the first stage of the pipeline. I managed to contact twelve companies. Of these, 9 continue to work at the facilities of the second stage of the Eastern Siberia - Tikhiy Ocean pipeline. For example, the brigade of Sibneftevin OJSC, a company that, as a result of its activities at the facilities of the first stage of the pipeline (that is, when the President of Transneft was still Semyon Weinste), according to table No. 1, brought a loss of 462 million rubles more. Uralsibneftino OJSC also works (a loss in the first stage-165 million rubles) and Vostoknefteleny LLC (loss of 235 million 324 thousand rubles), North-Western main oil pipelines (loss of 217 million rubles).
The commentary of the transneft spokesman Igor Demin-The New Times: “I gave all the necessary comments on (news) ribbons. You can see them if you are a media. Are you a media? Just what, in my opinion, wrote that we are thieves and bandits. (The New Times: In the archives of the magazine, you could not find anything like this.) You know, about a hundred ago I would throw you a glove in the face and would love to pierce. But now I have to talk to you on the phone ... "
From an interview with Alexei Navalny - The New Times: the Accounts Chamber said that, according to the results of the audit, she sent letters to the General Prosecutor's Office and the State Duma of the Russian Federation. Why, in your opinion, did not follow any reaction from law enforcement officers or deputies? Because “Transneft” is almost a FSB unit, it is all full of guys in uniform. This is a huge bag of “Kesha”, which they dispose of, and their real boss is Putin. As a matter of fact, the Transneft report itself appeared because they wanted to clean the people of Weinstock, who, although he had already left for a long time, continued to control the company. What could they do? They could not announce to the whole country that four billion had been stolen. According to the most infinite contractors such as Krasnodartransgaz (with Krasnodartraitransgaz CJSC, the contract was terminated in June 2007. - The New Times) conducted cases - criminal cases, arbitration, but for one reason: because they broke the deadlines.
* It was planned to pass the first of all to the oil pipeline on November 1, 2008. But only on December 28, 2009, Prime Minister Putin personally pressed the VSO launch button. These gaskets simply could not really work, and Transneft had no choice but to get them.
Why did Transneft make not release the materials of its internal verification? After all, the new president of the company came, Tokarev, he was supposed to be interested in all these billions of losses to dump on his predecessor? They were interested in giving it all into the elites to come to the prime minister and say to him: “Putin, everyone stole. But this is not us. We start everything from scratch. ” Actually, they did this: that is why the report was scorched by the vice president of Transneft (see Photocopy on page 14). But they were completely not interested in the fact that we, the public, became known about the report to the Accounts Chamber. And it is clear why: old contractors both worked and continue to work. The flow of cash is huge, who will refuse it?
Prime Minister’s spokeswoman Dmitry Peskov so commented on what you posted on his blog: “I do not see any need to comment on bloggers. The counting chamber is mentioned there. If there was something, for sure we would have learned everything directly from there. ” Well, why be surprised, if Putin, the next day (November 17), declared gratitude to Transneft for a dedicated job? Well, what could Peskov still say - “Putin saw everything and closed his eyes”? I am pleased that they reacted at least somehow.
What do you think will now follow any actions from the Prosecutor General’s Office? I wrote to them all about this - to the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Investigative Committee. The Prosecutor General’s Office sent my letters first to Irkutsk, Moscow and Peter. I don’t know why in St. Petersburg. According to one of the episodes, I was issued a decision to refuse to institute criminal proceedings, which I canceled in court. But I realized that this work would completely choke without public support.
Expand the secret: how did you still manage to get these transneft materials that they sent to the Accounts Chamber? Nope. The person who gave me will suffer very much. When he handed me these materials - he was shaking. I took the materials for one day to copy, and when I returned, I saw that he had already regretted very much, that he showed all this to me.
Why was he so afraid? Because the federal police were engaged in this case, went there, mined documents. And then Putin appointed Weinstock to manage the Olympic construction in Sochi,
* On September 11, 2007, President Vladimir Putin invited Semyon Weinstok to head the state corporation for the preparation of the 2014 Olympics. On April 17, 2008, Weinstok was relieved of this position. And the police became clear: the case is put under cloth. But I will tell you right away: the materials did not flow to me from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Why are you not afraid? Yes, I already have such risks as much as it was! Both on VTB and on Interregiongaz. But I will continue to do what I am doing.
How does the wife feel about this? The wife calmed down after I told her: "You just live with the thought that I was killed or imprisoned." And after that it became easier for her. That is, she understands that nothing can be done. Need to endure ...
Maxim Martemyanov took part in the preparation of the material